{"id":22385,"date":"2017-05-19T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=22385"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:34:27","slug":"genealogy-tip-use-a-wide-search-to-discover-new-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-tip-use-a-wide-search-to-discover-new-relatives.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Tip: Use a Wide Search to Discover New Relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a recent search in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> for all Sanborn\u2019s living in the surrounding area of my family in New Hampshire, I discovered a likely new relative who was missing from my family tree.<\/p>\n

Hoping to find new Sanborn relatives in Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, where many of my ancestors lived, I searched the New Hampshire obituary archives<\/a> with the keywords \u201cSanborn\u201d in the Last Name field and the place \u201cGilmanton\u201d in the Include Keywords field. I limited the search to the early period when my family lived there.<\/p>\n

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

Reading through the search results I found this: the marriage announcement of \u201cMr. Joseph Sanborn, Jr., of Gilford, to Miss Eliza Ann, eldest daughter of Jeduthan Farrar, Esq., of Gilmanton.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Marriage<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Independent Democrat (Concord, New Hampshire), 15 November 1849, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the Independent Democrat<\/em>, Joseph and Eliza were married 1 November 1849 in Gilmanton. However, Joseph Sanborn<\/span> and Eliza Ann Farrar’s<\/span> FamilySearch records included no information on their parents or any details beyond their marriage date and that it took place in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

\"Sanborn<\/a>
Source: FamilySearch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately, the newspaper marriage announcement gives some clues.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoseph Sanborn, Jr.\u201d suggests that his father was also named Joseph Sanborn. Eliza Ann Farrar is listed as \u201cthe eldest daughter of Jeduthan Farrar, Esq., of Gilmanton.\u201d It is particularly helpful to have such a distinctive name. I immediately searched for Jeduthan on GenealogyBank next.<\/p>\n

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

The first result was an obituary for Eliza\u2019s father Jeduthan Farrar, who died on 30 July 1863 in Upper Gilmanton.<\/p>\n

\"Obituaries,<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette (Concord, New Hampshire), 19 August 1863, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now that I have some additional information about Eliza and Joseph\u2019s family from their marriage announcement and Jeduthan\u2019s obituary, I can begin searching for the missing links that will tie them to my family tree. Now to find Joseph Sanborn\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> When searching GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> you want to map out the family by recording the details of all persons of your surname in the target area. Like laying out the pieces of a crossword puzzle, you will be able to see how the individuals fit into your family tree or conclude that they are not related to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article with a genealogy search tip regarding a wide search for a family name in a geographic area, in this case the Sanborn family in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22413,"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-22385","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\/05\/photo-0421-2017-featured-graphic-sanbornton-new-hampshire.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22385","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=22385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77429,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22385\/revisions\/77429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}