{"id":10859,"date":"2015-06-17T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2015-06-17T11:43:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:43:46","slug":"family-reunites-after-90-year-mystery-in-springfield-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/family-reunites-after-90-year-mystery-in-springfield-solved.html","title":{"rendered":"Family Reunites after 90-Year Mystery in Springfield Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, librarian Irene Nolan (Hamden Public Library, Connecticut) shares the story of how a family \u2013 separated for more than 90 years \u2013 was brought together once again with information from GenealogyBank.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRH1UilQ39w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This librarian was helping a family research their family tree. They had their grandfather\u2019s first and last names. That was enough for Nolan to begin her search in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/newspapers\/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=%20SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;s_referrer=social&amp;s_siteloc=blog&amp;s_trackval=%20SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;kbid=69919&amp;pq=1&amp;prebuy=no&amp;intver=&amp;CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>. Within 10 minutes she had located valuable genealogical information about the grandfather and his surviving relatives that facilitated the family\u2019s reunion after nine decades of separation.<\/p>\n<p>[search_box]<\/p>\n<p>We can do this.<br \/>\nStart now and find your family \u2013 all of them \u2013 by finding their stories in old newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us what you find out about your family in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/newspaper-genealogy-research.html\">Newspaper Genealogy Research Discoveries: 7 Brothers Meet at Last<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/ah-ha-moment-genealogybank-members-favorite-family-find.html\">\u2018Ah-Ha!\u2019 Moment: GenealogyBank Member\u2019s Favorite Family Find<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/a-fascinating-genealogy-success-story-mystery-of-missing-ancestors-solved.html\">A Fascinating Genealogy Success Story: Mystery of Missing Ancestors Solved<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[bottom_post_ad]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, librarian Irene Nolan (Hamden Public Library, Connecticut) shares the story of how a family \u2013 separated for more than 90 years \u2013 was brought together once again with information from GenealogyBank. This librarian was helping a family research their family tree. They had their grandfather\u2019s first and last names. That was enough [&hellip;]<\/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":[1102,521,1658,2233,4007,12,1661,9865,465,9862,9864,443,1067,2020,27,4818,9863,2096,1072],"class_list":["post-10859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-connecticut","tag-ct","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-family-reunions","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-hamden-public-library","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-irene-nolan","tag-librarians","tag-ma","tag-massachusetts","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-newspapers-for-genealogy","tag-nolan","tag-reunions","tag-springfield"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859","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=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}