2022 was a great year for new Quicksheets published on The Ancestor Hunt website. Quicksheets were originally introduced in January 2021. 2022’s new Quicksheets totaled 38. How many of these from 2022 did you review, or miss? Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
Category: QuickSheets
OK – you won’t get rich when you find an obituary, but your genealogy research will benefit, and your family history research will get richer. We have a tendency as researchers to underappreciate the value of the documents or articles that we already have acquired, and spend our time looking for new “stuff.” There are […]
Was your ancestor an inventor? Did they apply for and receive a patent? There are several databases you can search. Google Patents is the most well-known, but there are four others you might want to try out. All are free to search. To obtain the one-page Quick Sheet pdf for easy reference of where to […]
Finding information and articles in newspapers about your ancestors is incredibly rewarding. And the amount of information about your ancestors in old newspapers is likely more than we can find. But if you are not careful you can make assumptions about what is in the ink on the newsprint and foul up your research because […]
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 link to a QuickSheet that contains the different types of taxes since colonial times in the […]
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 […]
Finding your ancestors in newspaper articles is in my opinion – an art, not a science. You must be clever and resourceful to get around the quality limitations in old newspapers A “feature” of older newspapers is the use of the hyphen. Hyphenated words were often used heavily to save space and due to the […]
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 […]
There are lots of ways to improve your results when searching historical newspapers online. Use these techniques to obtain better results. Download the Quicksheet PDF To download the 10 Clever Ways to Find More Ancestor Newspaper Articles Quick Sheet PDF, click on the Download button below: For other QuickSheets that you can download, please go to […]
There are several ways to enhance your ability to find obituaries in old newspapers and other sources. Here are just a few of the most important techniques: To download the 9 Ways to Effectively Find Obituaries in Online Newspapers Quick Sheet PDF, click on the Download button: For all the previously published Quick Reference Guides, […]
