Follow-Up Story: Good News about the Italian State Archives L’Aquila
By Thomas Jay Kemp on January 13, 2016
An article about how the genealogy records of Italy’s State Archive of L’Aquila are being digitized following an earthquake... (Read More)
Tag: Earthquakes
How to Research Your Genealogy with Google & Newspapers
By Gena Philibert-Ortega on May 22, 2014
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena shows how to use the information you find in old newspapers to conduct Google searches that help your genealogy research. So you just found “the” newspaper article about your ancestor that you were... (Read More)
Researching the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 in the News
By Tony Pettinato on April 18, 2014
An article about the massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake that devastated San Francisco, California, early on the morning of 18 April 1906... (Read More)
Earthquake! Newspapers Record Destruction in California History
By Gena Philibert-Ortega on August 15, 2012
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena shows how historical newspapers provide excellent coverage of disasters such as earthquakes, including detailed casualty lists helpful to genealogists. Living in California as I do, earthquakes are a fact of life. Because of... (Read More)
