A note from the editor
About the Paper
The Family History Herald™ is a free weekly paper for people tracing their families, set the way newspapers looked in the 1930s and 1940s: black ink, narrow columns and a front page you turn like the real thing.
The editor
The paper is edited by Christine Burke von Riddern, FGG, author of 13 books, including Concrete Clues, a #1 Amazon bestseller in Genealogy.
What is in it
- The Record-Room Index: free record sources, checked and added to every week.
- Old-Newspaper Finds: how to search historic newspapers.
- Photo Mysteries: dating and identifying old family photographs.
- Beyond the Headstone: a proposed free remembrance column.
- The Herald by Post: the weekly newsletter.
Our rules
- Free to read. Paid for by labeled advertising and disclosed affiliate links.
- Nothing invented. No made-up finds, readers or testimonials.
- Permission first. Reader photographs and remembrances are printed only with permission.
- Black ink on newsprint. A newspaper should look like one.
Status: preview. The name is a working title; the paper has not launched.