This article is part of a series: Finding Your Ancestors: Fundamentals. If you are like me, you want to know as much as possible about the lives of your ancestors. Determining their stories is a challenge, especially if no one is alive who remembers the ancestor you are researching. But fortunately, many documents record at […]
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This article is part of a series: Finding Your Ancestors: Fundamentals. When researching our ancestors, one of our most important goals is to determine where they lived. This information is key to finding other aspects of their lives, whether they be local or state vital records, census records, or newspapers where there might be further […]
During my early family history research, I quickly realized the immense value of newspapers in uncovering hidden stories. Imagine discovering incredible stories about your ancestors that no one else in your family knows — stories hidden in the pages of history that can bring your family legacy to life. Newspaper research has the power to […]
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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 visit the Ancestor Hunt website, you know that theoriginal focus, and still a favorite is all about online historical newspaper research. Here is a summary of all you can do and all you can learn at The Ancestor Hunt: A Curated List of Links to over 75,000 Free Online Historical Newspapers These links […]
A while ago, I stumbled upon a very interesting genealogy database that I want to share with you. The author of the site, Ray Gurganus, has created several databases, with an Occupational Records database being the most interesting to me. There are almost 2 million records in this database, and it is searchable. It is […]
The Power of Using Abbreviations In newspapers, you are likely to find abbreviations of people’s given or first names. So, when searching online, it behooves us to search with the abbreviation of that first name as well as the full first name. To demonstrate the power of searching with abbreviations, I searched for a common […]
It is my opinion that of all the resources and records available to research – newspaper articles are most critical, because of the richness and variety of their content. For example, I had found my great-great-grandfather Louis Marks early on but knew nothing of his siblings or parents. Louis was the first to immigrate to […]