Recently I learned about a new free archive website - Community History Archives From their website: The archives are across the United Stat...

According to the April edition of PastPorts  (the St. Louis County Library's History and Genealogy Newsletter) St. Louis County Librar...

My great grandfather's name is Barney Newmark, with a 'W.' How do you think I found the below article in my search of the St. L...

A week ago, the St. Louis Post Dispatch announced that their archives back to 1874 were now searchable.  They are being hosted by Newspapers...

Ancestry announced on Thursday a new website: Newspapers.com . Subscription rates are $80/year or $40/year for those who are already subscr...

I just received an email from Legacy.com.  (The date in the first paragraph says 11/16, but I received the email today, 11/18) Dear ObitMes...

Last Friday I was unable to post a Follow Friday, so I thought I would suggest two sites today.  Both sites are maintained by the same perso...

I am focusing on free resources for my Follow Friday series, and Footnote isn't free.  However, for the month of May, they are providin...

Randy at Genea-Musings for his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, challenges: Define one or more genealogy or family history databases, t...

I just learned that the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - acquired St. Louis Globe Democrat's clippings file...

Among the many news clippings I found in the St. Louis Post Dispatch (1874-1922) database I mentioned on Monday were listings of marriage l...

I received my email today announcing the December 2009 PastPorts (.pdf) - the newsletter for the Special Collections Department of the St. ...

It seems fitting that this is announced a couple days before Halloween. But when a business closes its doors, and the doors remain closed fo...

CURRENT INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND HERE One of the problems with the blog-format is that one finds oneself rewriting old posts with updated ...

In the comments to my Disaster post, Thomas MacEntee of Thomas 2.0 suggested I research old newspaper articles to see if there were cholera...