{"id":15635,"date":"2016-07-20T11:05:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=15635"},"modified":"2017-02-02T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:51:18","slug":"harold-shaw-my-mayflower-cousin-many-times-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/harold-shaw-my-mayflower-cousin-many-times-over.html","title":{"rendered":"Harold Shaw, My Mayflower Cousin \u2013 Many Times Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harold B. Shaw (1911-1975) was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada \u2013 but he was my cousin many times over because of our mutual descent from multiple Mayflower passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Since his family had moved to Canada several generations back on his line, I might not have found him.<\/p>\n<p>But, thanks to his obituary published in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&s_referrer=social&s_siteloc=blog&s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&kbid=69919&pq=1&prebuy=no&intver=&CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> \u2013 I found him very easily.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15637\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A12AE9C35A497B0E8%40GB3NEWS-132DD6D631495883%402442469-132A997D65959142%4010-132E096B9C8CB740\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/springfield-union-newspaper-0225-1975-harold-shaw-obituary.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Harold B. Shaw, Springfield Union newspaper article 25 February 1975\" width=\"276\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/springfield-union-newspaper-0225-1975-harold-shaw-obituary.png 276w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/springfield-union-newspaper-0225-1975-harold-shaw-obituary-135x300.png 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Springfield Union (Springfield, Massachusetts), 25 February 1975, page 23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His obituary states that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was a direct descendant of 12 Mayflower Pilgrim families, and 12 signers of the Mayflower Compact of 1620: William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Richard Warren, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, John Tilly, Francis Cooke, Thomas Rogers, James Chilton, John Billington, Peter Brown, and Edward Doty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s great. I am also descended from each of those Mayflower passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with this obituary I can then retrace and document Shaw\u2019s lines, re-confirming them and ensuring that our family tree is accurate, permanently recorded online and easily findable by future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Find and document your family lines in GenealogyBank\u2019s deep newspaper archives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Mayflower Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-genealogy-finding-your-cousins-using-newspapers.html\">Mayflower Genealogy: Finding Your Cousins Using Newspapers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/researching-recent-obituaries-for-all-my-mayflower-cousins.html\">Researching Recent Obituaries for All My Mayflower Cousins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/full-list-of-mayflower-passengers-in-gov-bradfords-newly-restored-journal.html\">Full List of Mayflower Passengers in Gov. Bradford\u2019s Newly-Restored Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/i-didnt-know-marilyn-guedesse-but-shes-my-cousin.html\">I Didn\u2019t Know Marilyn Guedesse \u2013 but, She\u2019s My Cousin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about finding descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims by looking for that reference in newspaper obituaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,8263,2020],"class_list":["post-15635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-mayflower-pilgrims","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/illustration-0720-2016-mayflower.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635","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=15635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}