Genealogy Research with Legal Notices in Newspapers
By Tony Pettinato on May 29, 2015
An article showing how legal notices published in newspapers can help fill in the details on your family tree... (Read More)
An article showing how legal notices published in newspapers can help fill in the details on your family tree... (Read More)
An article about Dr. Elisha Perkins and his invention of the "metal tractor" medical device... (Read More)
This obituary caught my eye for several reasons. First is the header, with its poem and graphic. “The Knell.” Not “Deaths” or “Died” – which are very common headers for obituary notices even today – but instead “The Knell,” as in death knell. Crisp. An excellent choice of words that immediately tells us this... (Read More)
I knew my ancestor William Kemp had come to America – but I didn’t know anything about the trip itself. What was it like for him as an immigrant traveling by passenger ship across the ocean to the new frontier? Could GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives help me find the answer? I knew that William... (Read More)
An article about Amelia Earhart’s departure from Newfoundland on 20 May 1932 to begin her successful solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean... (Read More)
An article about the Northeast Document Conservation Center preserving the manuscript copy of Governor William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Plantation.”.. (Read More)
In 1902 the Times-Picayune newspaper ran this large ad on the front page of their 28 February issue. This was the start of a regular feature – the “Confederate Column” – designed: to tell of men whose acts of individual heroism do not figure in battle reports…[and] to set in strong light the genius... (Read More)
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this blog article, Mary shows how graduation announcements in old newspapers are a good resource for your family history research. It’s that time of year, when graduation ceremonies abound – but I’d wager to say that few genealogists have... (Read More)
I was looking for the obituary of William Bullock Clark (1860-1917), a geology professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Looking in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives, I quickly found multiple obituaries for him. For example, there is this obituary from the Sun (Baltimore, Maryland). Great obituary. It includes the basic genealogical facts: his... (Read More)