June 17, 2015
In this video, librarian Irene Nolan (Hamden Public Library, Connecticut) shares the story of how a family – separated for more than 90 years – was brought together once again with information from GenealogyBank.
This librarian was helping a family research their family tree. They had their grandfather’s first and last names. That was enough for Nolan to begin her search in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives. Within 10 minutes she had located valuable genealogical information about the grandfather and his surviving relatives that facilitated the family’s reunion after nine decades of separation.
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I was excited to finally locate my great grandmother’s obituary and I finally found out what happened to one of my great uncles. An article found on Genealogybank explained that he was accidentally electrocuted while checking downed power lines. I never heard this story before and couldn’t understand why I could not find more info on him thru Ancestry.com.