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How to Spot and Avoid 9 Common Genealogy Mistakes & Errors
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this guest blog post, Mary discusses 9 common mistakes made when doing family history...
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Extra! Extra! Newspaper Archives Grow by 31+ Million Articles
It’s always exciting to see more and more newspapers going online—millions of them. We’ve just added a wide assortment of brand new newspaper titles, as well as expanded our existing titles to give you...
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GenealogyBank Update: 13 Million Newspaper Articles Just Added!
Every day, GenealogyBank is working diligently to digitize more U.S. newspapers and obituaries, expanding our online archives to give you the largest newspaper archives for family history research...
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Finding Family Heirlooms & Artifacts with eBay
It’s been years since I looked at eBay to find family heirlooms and artifacts. In the past, I have made some spectacular family history finds. For example, I once found an old family letter written by...
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Family Bibles for Genealogy Research: What to Look For
The Richmond Family Bible I bought on eBay recently arrived in the mail. Photo: Richmond Family Bible. Source: Thomas Jay Kemp. It was exactly as the seller had described it. The eBay description had...
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Are You Sure That Is How to Spell Your Ancestor’s Name?
Portraits of my Starbird ancestors hang on our wall on the landing at the top of the staircase. Over the years I have chained the family back from Martha Jane (Starbird) Richmond (1836-1905) to Robert...
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Virginia Archives: 147 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
Virginia has long played a prominent role in American history. The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established in Virginia in 1607 (Jamestown), Virginia was one of the original...
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Indiana Archives: 116 Newspapers Online for Genealogy Research
Located on the southern shore of Lake Michigan and bordered by Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois, Indiana state signs proclaim it the “Crossroads of America.” Indiana is the 38th largest state in...
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Getting Genealogy Records Online: My Clean-Up Plan
Looking at my genealogy research notes and files accumulated over the past 50+ years, I am wondering: what should I do with all this stuff? Photo: Thomas Jay Kemp I have five four-drawer file cabinets...
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Kentucky Archives: 102 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
Kentucky became the young nation’s 15th state when it joined the Union on 1 June 1792. Famous for its horse farms, horse racing, and bourbon distilleries, Kentucky is the 37th largest state in the...
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Virginia is 401 years old today!
Happy Birthday to Virginia!The first colonists arrived in Jamestown, Virginia on May 14, 1607 and with ups and downs the Commonwealth has prospered ever since. GenealogyBank.com is packed with early...
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Kentucky Newspapers online
List of Kentucky newspapers that are scheduled to go online on GenealogyBank in the months ahead. Quickly find obituaries; birth, engagement & wedding announcements; and so much more. (Stephen...
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Finding Nemo – and every Smith, Miller and Buckner in America
Whether you’re looking for William Nemo who was “shot and instantly killed about 10 o’clock last night” in Anaconda, Montana as reported in the 24 June 1903 Anaconda Standard …or ….. Boyd C. Buckner...
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More Newspapers Added to GenealogyBank – covering 1775-2008
GenealogyBank today added 115 newspapers from 29 States – with coverage from 1775 to today. Wow – GenealogyBank is growing at a rapid pace. That’s over 2 million more records and documents for...
View ArticleGenealogyBank adding more newspapers
GenealogyBank adds newspapers from 8 States – bringing our modern newspapers in the America’s Obituaries section up to 1,144 titles. ArkansasCourier, The (Russellville, AR) Obituaries: 08/23/2008 –...
View ArticleGenealogyBank adds 100 newspapers from 31 States
GenealogyBank adds 100 newspapers from 31 States – over 3.8 million articles, documents and records.AlaskaJuneau. Daily Record-Miner. 174 Issues. 1903-02-03 to 1911-04-29ArizonaTucson. Fronterizo. 9...
View ArticleOld Newspapers from 24 States go online
GenealogyBank adds content from 63 newspapers – from 24 States – 3.7 million records go online. In a major upload GenealogyBank has expanded its coverage adding long runs of historical newspapers –...
View ArticleGenealogyBank adds 64 newspapers from 27 States
GenealogyBank has added more newspapers – 64 titles from 27 States.GenealogyBank has also created separate search pages for each newspaper. If you want to search a newspaper on this list – click on the...
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North Carolina newspapers 1719-1926, 1988-Today
(Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy, Library of Congress: LC-USF34-52728-D) See what’s cooking in the Wilkins family kitchen … near Tallyho, Granville County, North Carolina … and all the...
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Idaho Statesman turns 145 years old!
Congratulations to the Idaho Statesman newspaper – it turned 145 years old yesterday! Click Here to search the old pages of the Idaho Statesman 1864-1922 in GenealogyBank. Read about the fall of...
View ArticleNewspapers Go Online –
GenealogyBank keeps on growing! GenealogyBank.com added more newspaper coverage for over 1,600 newspapers – in all 50 States this week. Here is just a list of some of the new content that has been...
View ArticleMillions of New Newspaper Records Added in January
GenealogyBank adds new content daily to its U.S. newspaper archives, an expansive online collection of 5,850 newspapers and more than one billion articles and records—and growing! January 2012 was one...
View Article31 Million Records Added to Our Archives in February!
Every day, GenealogyBank is working hard to digitize more newspapers and obituaries, expanding our online collections to give you the largest newspaper archives for family history research available...
View ArticleGenealogyBank Adds 22 Million Newspaper Records in March!
Every day, GenealogyBank is working hard to digitize more newspapers and obituaries, expanding our online collection to give you the largest newspaper archives for family history research available...
View ArticleMonthly Update: GenealogyBank Adds 24 Million Records in April!
Every day, GenealogyBank is working hard to digitize more newspapers and obituaries, expanding our online collection to give you the largest newspaper archives for family history research available...
View ArticleMonthly Update: GenealogyBank Just Added 24 Million More Records!
Every day, GenealogyBank is working hard to digitize more newspapers and obituaries, expanding our collection to give you the largest newspaper archives for family history research available online. We...
View ArticleHandy Quick List: 75 Kentucky Newspapers Now Online
GenealogyBank is growing at a rapid pace—we now have over 75 Kentucky newspapers online. That’s a lot of local city papers for your ancestry research in the “Bluegrass State.” Here is the complete list...
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More Additions to GenealogyBank’s Online Newspaper Archives
GenealogyBank continues to add more content to its online historical newspaper archives every day, a continuous effort to provide more information to help with your family history research. Collage of...
View ArticleMore Newspapers Online for Genealogists from GenealogyBank
GenealogyBank has added the backfiles of more than 100 newspapers from 28 U.S. states! This is great news for genealogists—so start searching now. Every day we work to fill in missing issues in our...
View ArticleMillions More Historical Newspaper Articles Going Online Soon!
Did you realize GenealogyBank adds millions of digitized newspaper articles every week? This month we’ve added over 21 million records to GenealogyBank, including the following ten newspaper titles...
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More 20th Century Newspapers Going Online!
GenealogyBank is expanding its online archives to include more 20th Century newspapers for genealogy research. We’re adding the Boston Daily Record (Boston, Massachusetts) as well as expanding...
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More Massachusetts, North Carolina & Virginia Newspapers Coming Online!
Newspapers are a great source for obituaries, as well as birth notices, marriage announcements, family reunion stories, and local news reports—providing great information to help with your family...
View ArticleGenealogyBank Is Growing Rapidly!
Every day we add more newspapers to GenealogyBank’s online newspaper archives, updating our coverage for more than 3,000 newspapers. Rain, snow, it doesn’t matter—we digitize and post daily papers...
View ArticleThousands of Old Newspaper Back Issues Added Online Every Day!
It is exciting to see the fast pace of more back issues being digitized and added to GenealogyBank’s online historical newspaper archives. Checking in with our production team I found that just this...
View Article3,000+ U.S. Newspaper Archives Just Got More Content!
It is another busy year for the GenealogyBank team as we continue to rapidly grow our online archives to offer you the best U.S. newspaper coverage for your genealogy research. We are pleased to...
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New Newspaper Content Added Every Day! Here Is the Latest List
With an annual subscription to GenealogyBank you get a gift every day of the year: more content to research your family history, because every day we put more newspapers online. Credit: Library of...
View Article23 Million Newspaper Records for all 50 U.S. States Just Added!
Did you realize that every day GenealogyBank adds more records from over 3,000 newspapers from all 50 states? Our archivists and digital experts are gathering and digitizing more of America’s...
View ArticleGenealogyBank’s Genealogy Database Grows Every Day!
GenealogyBank’s database of genealogy records is constantly growing. We add more newspapers to our online historical newspaper archives every single day. It is really amazing to see the pace of this...
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Finding My Relative’s Story: The Search for Madge E. Richmond
The other day I asked myself: what can I realistically find about my relatives in GenealogyBank? How many details about my family can I discover? So I decided to find out by searching GenealogyBank’s...
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FamilySearch Family Tree Adds Important New ‘Attach Record’ Feature
FamilySearch.org has released a new “Search & Attach Record” feature this week that lets you easily search and attach genealogy records to each person on your family tree. For example, let’s look...
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