There are lots of ways to improve your results when searching historical newspapers online. Use these techniques to obtain better results. Deliberately Misspell When Searching Online OCR is not perfect and scanning 100-year-old newsprint creates errors. Change your search criteria and replace letters that have a similar shape, such as “b” and “h” Try Abbreviations […]
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When I first started my ancestor research, after I had gotten over the initial excitement of reviewing census records and interviewing my living relatives, I almost immediately began trying to find my immigrant ancestors and how they got to America. Through free repositories such as Ellis Island and Castle Garden and other sites, as well […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is criminal records. Some of our ancestors, unfortunately, got in trouble with the law. And records were kept from arrests through court cases to prison documents. Now, more and more of these records are being digitized or transcribed and are being made available online. Here is […]
Voter registration records are available online and offline from all over the world and are what I consider a hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. Before I get to the list of 9 reasons why voter records are such a wonderful tool for researching (and […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, for example, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times. Below is a list that contains the different types of taxes since colonial times in the U.S., and the […]
Some great places to start researching genealogy records are in genealogical and historical societies. There are many ethnicity and nationality-based societies. Each society has collections and records available that will aid in your research. Some are accessible for non-members and even more are accessible for those who have purchased a membership. Below are some ethnicity-based […]
Primarily a North American phenomenon historically, the first yearbook published was the Yale Banner in the early 1800s. I encourage you to research old yearbooks, and not just for yourself and close relatives. What about your ancestors? They went to school too (at least some of them in the last 200 years). And they belonged […]
Other than making sure that you are searching in the right place geographically and using a date range that fits your ancestors’ lives, what follows is the best way to find more ancestor articles when searching online historic newspapers. If you do newspaper research online as part of your genealogy and family history pursuits, then […]
Do you like to search for genealogy records for your ancestors for Free? Duh. I have about 100 websites that I use, some frequently, some infrequent. Some have digitized records in their collections. Some have links to collections that can be searched or browsed. Some include transcribed records. And some have useful genealogical educational information. […]
If you are trying to add to your ancestor’s life stories, what better way than interesting newspaper articles about their lives? Absent direct accounts from your living relatives, seeking these hidden gems in old newspapers will tell you things about your ancestors that there is no other way, absent a biography or autobiographical book, that […]