EphemeraSearch

YOUR ANCESTORS HAD MAIL EphemeraSearch is an online database of old mail where anyone can preserve their own collections. We're on a mission to digitize the world's old postcards, letters, telegrams, and other ephemera so genealogists can search for their ancestors' correspondence. If you’re like us, you often pause at the box of old postcards and photographs at antique stores or estate sales. You wonder about the people who wrote these messages, and you wonder if your own grandmother’s writings might be out there somewhere. At EphemeraSearch.com, we’re on a mission to scan all of it. On this site, you’ll find a searchable database of old mail – already 2 million unique, personally-identifiable pieces of the everyday past, including postcards, telegrams, letters, and photographs from all 50 states and 200 countries.