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<\/a>Great obituary. It includes the basic genealogical facts: his date of birth, death, and information about his immediate family.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s an extra family fact:<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir\u2026daughter, who was Miss Helen Clark, was married to Capt. H. Findlay French, the Baltimore lawyer, who now is stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., as a member of the quartermaster\u2019s department.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Other helpful family history facts:<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sprang from stock which came over in the Mayflower and from others which settled in Plymouth Colony in its earliest days and attained leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n
These are key research facts and clues to follow up on for more information.<\/p>\n
Looking deeper in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Documents area<\/a>, I found this four-page obituary for Clark that is rich in detailed information about his life.<\/p>\n This detailed obituary is a great research find: four pages about his life, his family and his career.<\/p>\n It is common for the annual reports of government agencies to include detailed obituaries for not only employees but also for individuals who worked closely with the government \u2013 such as Clark, who was a college geology professor who worked with the Smithsonian Institution.<\/p>\n Notice that this four-obituary gives us more information on the immediate family and on his colonial ancestors than the shorter obituary in the newspaper did.<\/p>\n We learn that Clark was a descendant of: John Howland and John Tilly, two of the passengers on the Mayflower<\/em>; ancestors who fought in the Colonial wars; and Daniel Stewart, who fought at the Battle of Lexington in 1775. This is exactly the type of family history information that we need.<\/p>\n Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> When searching in GenealogyBank, don\u2019t search only the newspapers \u2013 look at all search results from all areas of GenealogyBank\u2019s resources, including historical documents, government reports and records, the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, historical books, and the Social Security Death Index.<\/p>\n Have you had success finding detailed genealogical records about your ancestors such as this four-page obituary in GenealogyBank\u2019s historical archives? If so, please share your research finds with us in the comments.<\/p>\n Related Obituary Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n [bottom_post_ad]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019s 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 date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[5294,9551,1658,2233,4325,12,9548,9547,431,465,2424,5832,5830,9549,9546,2020,27,4818,1084,5059,4333,9544,5441,9550,9545],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-clark","tag-daniel-stewart","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-french","tag-genealogy","tag-h-findlay-french","tag-helen-clark","tag-historical-documents","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-historical-obituaries","tag-howland","tag-john-howland","tag-john-tilly","tag-johns-hopkins-university","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-newspapers-for-genealogy","tag-obituaries","tag-obituary-archives","tag-professors","tag-smithsonian-institution","tag-stewart","tag-tilly","tag-william-bullock-clark"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"montage](\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/montage-0513-2015-clark-obituary.png\" "\\"montage-0513-2015-clark-obituary\\"")
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