{"id":21475,"date":"2017-04-21T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=21475"},"modified":"2017-05-19T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:56:39","slug":"discovering-new-relatives-through-hometown-searches-jeremiah-sanborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/discovering-new-relatives-through-hometown-searches-jeremiah-sanborn.html","title":{"rendered":"Discovering New Relatives through Hometown Searches: Jeremiah Sanborn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travel was much more difficult in 19th century America than it is today \u2013 you couldn\u2019t simply hop on a plane and find yourself across the country in just a few hours. Because of this, it wasn\u2019t uncommon for people to be born, married, live, and die all within a few miles\u2019 radius. This is why many small towns and villages in early America were made up of large extended families, and almost everyone in town was related somehow.<\/p>\n

Knowing this, I wanted to see what new ancestors I could discover who lived in the same places as other members of my family tree. I know I\u2019m related to multiple people with the last name \u201cSanborn\u201d in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, so I decided to search GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> using the keyword \u201cSanbornton.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This search brought up 168 marriage records, meaning there\u2019s a good chance I have lots of relatives in Sanbornton.<\/p>\n

Looking over the search results page, I noticed that the second entry is a marriage notice from May 1854: \u201cAt Sanbornton, by Rev. Mr. Ware, Mr. Jeremiah Sanborn of Gilmanton, to Miss Martha Durrell of Sanbornton.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Marrriage<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette (Concord, New Hampshire), 17 May 1854, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jeremiah Sanborn (1791\u20131862) of Gilmanton and Martha Durrell of Sanbornton are almost certainly distant cousins of mine. I searched my family tree on FamilySearch \u2013 and sure enough, I found Jeremiah and Martha in my family tree and added the exact date of their marriage that I found in GenealogyBank:<\/p>\n

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Source: FamilySearch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jeremiah\u2019s page on FamilySearch also gave me another interesting detail: Martha was Jeremiah\u2019s second wife. His first marriage was to Abigail Bean in 1845.<\/p>\n

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Source: FamilySearch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wanted to find out a little more about this first wife, so I did another search in GenealogyBank for her.<\/p>\n

The second result gave me the grim news of her death by suicide.<\/p>\n

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Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 4 December 1851, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I knew from my family tree that Abigail\u2019s maiden name was \u201cBean\u201d \u2013 so it is very likely the \u201cB.\u201d in this death notice stands for her maiden name.<\/p>\n

To be sure this was the same Abigail Bean who was married to Jeremiah Sanborn, I checked my family tree for Abigail\u2019s death date. Sure enough, Abigail died on that date in 1851, just six years after her marriage to Jeremiah.<\/p>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Use GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> to discover new relatives you never knew about, or to fill in the gaps for the ones you have already found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article providing a genealogy search tip, showing how to find additional ancestors by doing a search on location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21495,"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],"class_list":["post-21475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/photo-0421-2017-featured-graphic-sanbornton-new-hampshire.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475","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=21475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}