We’re excited to announce that in conjunction with our publishing partner Gannett, we’ve added 13 more papers from five states to our archives! These papers
Author: Jenny Ashcraft
Family bibles are a treasure for genealogists and often recorded important events like births, deaths, and marriages. Family bibles were especially popular in the 1700s
We’ve teamed up with our publishing partner Gannett to introduce 27 new papers from six states! Dating back to 1848, the newspapers in this collection
The 1950 U.S. Census records have been released. Several states are already indexed and searchable on Ancestry®. Others will become available in the coming weeks
On April 14, 1935, a massive black cloud of dust rolled across several states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The wall of
We are pleased to announce the addition of millions of new pages of Canadian content to our archives. We have papers from Alberta, British Columbia,
On April 1, 1950, some 150,000 census workers, armed with pencils and thick pads of census schedules, set out to visit every residence in the
In honor of Black History Month, we wanted to spotlight some of our Black History newspapers. These papers are either Black-owned or covered news relevant
On a January day in 1942, a young Black man penned a letter to the editor at the Pittsburgh Courier asking a poignant question, “Should
In the late 1800s, people flocked to the shores of Lake Michigan to play in the sand. Visitors loved to climb a 200-foot landmark dune