October 19, 2017
Wow – GenealogyBank is 11 years old today and has it grown fast!
Celebrate with us by searching for your ancestors in our collections today.
When we launched on 19 October 2006, GenealogyBank had 160 million records. Now it has over 1 billion records.
Our genealogy website has grown from 2,700 newspapers to more than 7,000, with coverage from all 50 states spanning three centuries – from 1690 to today – making it one of the most comprehensive newspaper resources for genealogical research online.
See our complete newspaper list here.
Newspapers are the essential core tool for documenting your family history, and GenealogyBank’s unique resources in its Historical Newspaper Archives make that possible. Over 95% of the newspaper content on our genealogy website cannot be found anywhere else on the Internet.
Since the day GenealogyBank launched, we have been adding more genealogical content to our site continuously – including more newspapers, obituaries, government records, and historical books and documents.
Come and see what you’ll discover about your family!
