| We constantly add more newspapers and obituaries to our online archive. Currently, GenealogyBank features over 5,700 newspapers from all 50 states, with more than 209 million obituaries and death records. Here are some details about our most recent additions (we actually added new content to thousands of titles, but the following is a representative sample): a total of 112 titles from 26 states. We've shown the date ranges so that you can determine if the new content is relevant to your personal research. |
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Feature Article: Periódicos en Español—Hispanic
American Newspapers Online |
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| GenealogyBank has the largest collection of Hispanic American newspapers to explore Latino family ancestry online. Our extensive Hispanic American collection currently contains over 360 newspaper titles. This is an essential newspaper archive for genealogists, supplementing the other newspapers on our genealogy website and helping to make it one of the most comprehensive resources for Hispanic genealogical research online. |
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Search Tips: How to Find Ancestors' Legal Name
Change Records with Newspapers |
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| Sometimes when researching your family history, it is difficult to find a relative—they just seem to have fallen off the face of the earth. Did they go into the witness protection program? Were they abducted by aliens? Did they go on a cruise through the Bermuda Triangle? Maybe they simply changed their name. After all, many people did opt to change their identity to start anew. |
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Discoveries: A Halloween Trick—or Treat—for
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| People are named for many reasons: family names, months, flowers—even for holidays. Since their daughter was born on October 31, 1916, James and May VanNada decided to name her "Halloween VanNada." Now there's an unusual name for you! Having a distinctive name can be a treat, a mark of distinction. Then again, a very unusual name might be seen as a sort of trick—after all, their daughter chose to go by the name "Holly." |
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Georgia Family History Expo 2011 |
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Tom Kemp, GenealogyBank's Director of Genealogy Products, will be appearing at the second annual Georgia Family History Expo, taking place in Gwinnett, Georgia, on Nov. 11-12. Tom is scheduled to deliver three lectures at the Expo, all held in Salon 6.
Friday, Nov. 11 at 3:30 p.m.: "African American Newspapers"
(Beginner) Learn about the more than 270 African American newspapers in GenealogyBank's online collection, published from 1827-1999. Tom will provide practical advice for genealogists, such as: methods for efficient searching; and how to clip and save articles about your family. Attendees will receive special access to these online newspapers.
Saturday, Nov. 12 at 10:00 a.m.: "21st Century Genealogy"
(All Levels) Concentrate on the ten essential online resources that you need to research your family online. Cut through the clutter on the Internet and focus on the ten core resources with the reliable, essential content that you will use to document and preserve your family tree.
Attendees will be shown the ten core online sources. This presentation is geared to focus researchers on these sites to save time and improve the accuracy of their family history. Sites such as: Ancestry, FamilySearch, GenealogyBank, Google Books, Internet Archive, Scribd, etc., will be covered.
Saturday, Nov. 12 at 11:20 a.m.: "Newspapers: Finding the Details about Your Family"
(All Levels) Learn about the more than 5,700 newspapers in GenealogyBank's online newspaper archives, published from 1690-Today. Learn how to search efficiently, and clip and save articles about your family. Tom will provide practical tips for searching these online newspapers published over the past three centuries. Attendees will receive special access to these online newspapers.
If you're attending the Expo stop by and say hello to Tom, and come listen to his genealogy lectures—you'll find them entertaining and educational! |
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