{"id":19109,"date":"2017-01-27T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=19109"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:19:28","slug":"finding-more-of-her-story-mary-elizabeth-bird-1850-1851","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/finding-more-of-her-story-mary-elizabeth-bird-1850-1851.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding More of Her Story: Mary Elizabeth Bird (1850-1851)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the death certificate of the young infant, Mary Elizabeth Bird (1850-1851), who died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, 15 July 1851.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19111\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/1:1:JK7Q-VX4\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19111 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/photo-0127-2017-mary-bird-death-certificate.png\" alt=\"Photo: death certificate for Mary Elizabeth Bird\" width=\"645\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/photo-0127-2017-mary-bird-death-certificate.png 645w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/photo-0127-2017-mary-bird-death-certificate-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/photo-0127-2017-mary-bird-death-certificate-400x188.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: FamilySearch, \u201cPennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915,\u201d database with images, FamilySearch (https:\/\/familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/1:1:JK7Q-VX4: 9 December 2014), Mary Elizabeth Bird, 15 Jul 1851; citing item 1, Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; FHL microfilm 1,939,907.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The death certificate is brief and covers the basic facts: her name, partial age, date and cause of her death.<\/p>\n<p>Here is her obituary that appeared the day after her death on Wednesday, 16 July 1851.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19115\" style=\"width: 557px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2:12368904C6A6FB72@GB3NEWS-126C599F5C3CBAB0@2397320-126C599FA6EAFF58@1-126C59A178CFABB0\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/public-ledger-newspaper-0716-1851-mary-bird-obituary.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Mary Elizabeth Bird, Public Ledger newspaper article 16 July 1851\" width=\"557\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/public-ledger-newspaper-0716-1851-mary-bird-obituary.png 557w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/public-ledger-newspaper-0716-1851-mary-bird-obituary-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/public-ledger-newspaper-0716-1851-mary-bird-obituary-400x187.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank.com, Public Ledger (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 16 July 1851, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The obituary gives us important additional information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her age was not just 14 months \u2013 but 14 months and 25 days<\/li>\n<li>The names of her parents<\/li>\n<li>The date, place and time of her funeral<\/li>\n<li>The elegy poem selected by her parents to memorialize their daughter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is essential that genealogists gather all of the primary sources for their relatives. Having Mary Elizabeth Bird\u2019s death certificate is valuable \u2013 and having her detailed obituary gives us more of her story.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers are essential for documenting your family tree.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let the details of your loved ones be lost.<\/p>\n<p>Find them and document them using GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;s_referrer=social&amp;s_siteloc=blog&amp;s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;kbid=69919&amp;pq=1&amp;prebuy=no&amp;intver=&amp;CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about how obituaries provide important details not contained in a death certificate, to help us better understand our ancestors\u2019 stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19121,"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":[12,2719,2020,1084],"class_list":["post-19109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-obituaries"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/photo-0810-2016-cemetery.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109","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=19109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}