Tag: State Archives

Finding Non-Digitized Obits

May 12, 2023 Although many newspapers are now digitized, some are still only available offline. Typically, undigitized newspapers tend to be smaller papers from rural areas – exactly the papers most likely to have published an obit for our ancestors. Luckily, there are ways to obtain obits, even if a newspaper is not available online. …

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Visit a State Archive this Year

April 14, 2023 Over the past few years, the internet has been a lifeline for genealogical research. Without it, these pandemic years would have stopped our research in its tracks.   Now that the pandemic is pretty much under control, we need to remember that only about ten per cent of all genealogical records are …

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