I blogged GenealogyBank’s launch about six weeks ago. As you know, I’m a great supporter of what they are doing and have attempted to list the offerings at the site on this blog - as they are posted at GenealogyBank (Click here) and (Click here).
The site is rather spendy at $19.95 (and worth it, I […]
Everyone loves Santa Claus. Robert Rion (1944-2003) did and he resembled Santa too. He loved playing the part so much that according to his obituary he went to court to change his name to match that of his look-alike folklore hero. (Deerfield Review (IL) - September 4, 2003). Rion, as Santa, dispensed good advice to […]
The following newspapers and obituaries have been posted to the GenealogyBank website in the last few days. Again, good stuff!
Evening News San Jose CA 1/2/1915 to 6/30/1915 Historical Newspapers
Evening News San Jose […]
London’s Daily Mirror has announced that it will make it’s newspapers from 1903 available on the Internet - starting in January. They will be searchable, and will most likely have a fee of some kind, although not a subscription.
The Mirror will make over 100 years of archived content available to the public online in […]
The Richmond Daily Dispatch for the Civil War years of 1860 through 1865 have been digitized, transcribed and indexed. They are now posted online for researchers to use - at no charge. What makes these papers unique is not only the Southern Civil War history, but the fact that the papers are transcribed as well […]
The following excerpt from a very interesting New York Times article just goes to once again remind us that some folks are just downright mean… Beyond that, the article has some very interesting insights into today’s online obituary and memorial book business, with all kinds of genealogical overtones.
EVANSTON, Ill. Long-silent mistresses, disgruntled former employees, […]
I blogged about the new GenealogyBank site a few weeks ago. Tom Kemp just sent me the following list of papers launched on the site during October. This is in addition to the 1300 titles they already had up! Amazing…
State Title Dates Collection
AK Peninsula Clarion 8/18/2006 to Current America’s Obituaries
CA Evening News 7/1/1914 to 12/30/1916 Historical Newspapers
CA San Jose Mercury News 5/1/1902 to 12/31/1916 Historical Newspapers
DC Catholic Standard 5/9/2002 […]
Ancestry.com has posted a new database that indexes digital images of birth, marriage, and death notices from the newspapers of the following seven major U.S. cities:
The Atlanta Constitution (1869-1929)
The Boston Globe (1872-1923)
The Chicago Defender (Big Weekend and National Editions) (1921-1975)
The Chicago Tribune (1850-1985)
The Hartford Courant (1791-1942)
The Los Angeles Times (1881-1985)
The New York Times (1851-2003)
The Washington […]
The following news release details new software being used by Libraries subscribing to NewspaperDirect through ProQuest. If your library subscribes to the service, this will be of interest. However, if they don’t, you still might want to check out NewspaperDirect. The Press Display Viewer is really pretty awesome. They claim to distribute 400 online newspapers […]
With microfilm copies of The Barnstable Patriot dating back to the newspapers founding in 1830, the Sturgis Library welcomes visitors from all over who are tracking genealogical, shipping or other information from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Next year, it will no longer be necessary to travel down the Old Kings Highway to Barnstable village and […]
The following News Release was just published. Newspaper content is an important source of genealogical data. This partnership will certainly give both World Vital Records and Small Town Papers an important boost.
September 13, 2006 ( Provo, UT ) —World Vital Records is pleased to announce a partnership today with SmallTownPapers, Inc, a newspaper archive […]
If you’ve got Colorado ancestry, you’ll want to search the digital newspapers at the Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection website.
Mary Penner’s latest column gives some good tips for newspaper research.
Having a lot of family from Southwest Michigan, I’ve been very pleased by the progress being made on an index to obituaries from the counties of Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo and Van Buren. Over 76,500 obits are indexed with over 5000 new names have been added to the Index just lately. A marriage, anniversary, […]
A local fundraising effort by the Kit-Han-Ne Questers 408 is allowing the Mildred Lankerd-Thomas Genealogical Library at the Armstrong County Historical and Museum Society to preserve past hardbound copies of the Leader Times on microfilm.
Carole Musick, Kit-Han-Ne Questers president, recently presented Lankerd-Thomas librarian Connie Mateer with $5,000 to continue the microfilming project. The funds were […]