{"id":19219,"date":"2017-02-01T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=19219"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:24:10","slug":"thats-french-like-the-toast-the-fries-and-the-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/thats-french-like-the-toast-the-fries-and-the-kiss.html","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s French \u2013 like the Toast, the Fries and the Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

A genealogist called me at home looking for advice on finding an 1824 Connecticut marriage record. She walked me through where she had already searched and asked me where she should look next.<\/p>\n

She wanted to know the last name of the \u201cCatharine\u201d who had married Asa French in Trumbull, Connecticut, in April 1824.<\/p>\n

I reviewed with her the sources where she had looked and asked if she had tried GenealogyBank<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She had never heard of it.
\nNow, mind you, this is an experienced genealogist \u2013 but she was not familiar with our massive online newspaper collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It turns out the exact info she needed was in GenBank \u2013 I found it in two minutes while talking with her on the phone, sipping lemonade, relaxing at the computer on a cold and stormy New England evening.<\/p>\n

This primary source \u2013 the Connecticut Herald<\/em> \u2013 reported their marriage and named both Asa French and Catharine Hawley.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank.com, Connecticut Herald (New Haven, Connecticut), 6 April 1824, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The search was simple: I just typed in \u201cAsa French\u201d and limited the search to the year 1824.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong>
\nSearching on GenealogyBank is simple and straightforward.
\nIt uses the \u201cWYTIWYG\u201d (What You Type Is What You Get) approach.
\nSo, don\u2019t overthink your search \u2013 like Twitter, brevity is key to success.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsa French.\u201d
\nThat\u2019s French \u2013 like the toast, the fries and the kiss.<\/p>\n

If you just searched on his surname \u201cFrench,\u201d you would be pulling in a lot of search results \u2013 over 23 million search hits!<\/p>\n

But \u2013 by adding his first name \u201cAsa\u201d and limiting the date range of the search to 1824, it narrows down the possible search results to only 13. Looking at that list, you can quickly spot their marriage notice in the second search result.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is as simple as that.<\/p>\n

GenealogyBank\u2019s mountain of data \u2013 over 2.1 billion records \u2013 gets results.<\/p>\n

Use it!
\nTell your friends!<\/p>\n

Discover the details of your ancestors\u2019 lives \u2013 document them and pass that information down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article providing genealogy search tips for family history researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19233,"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":[12,2719,1661],"class_list":["post-19219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-genealogybank-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/photo-0201-2017-featured-graphic-french-toast.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219","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=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}