{"id":2275,"date":"2012-11-16T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2012-11-16T18:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:36:24","slug":"mayflower-genealogy-research-tip-cast-a-wide-net-for-your-ancestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-genealogy-research-tip-cast-a-wide-net-for-your-ancestor.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mayflower\u2019 Genealogy Research Tip: Cast a Wide Net for Your Ancestor"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Thanksgiving just six days away, I thought I would search for any articles in GenealogyBank\u2019s archives that mentioned Dr. Samuel Fuller\u2014who was one of my Mayflower<\/em> ancestors.<\/p>\n

I searched putting the terms \u201cMayflower Samuel Fuller\u201d in the \u201cInclude Keywords\u201d search box. Bang\u2014GenealogyBank returned over 1,800 records.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s great; I can spend a long Thanksgiving weekend documenting more ancestors in our family tree.<\/p>\n

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GenealogyBank search results for the terms \u201cMayflower Samuel Fuller\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking at the search results in GenealogyBank\u2019s online newspaper archives, I can quickly see that the articles are exactly what I was hoping to find so that I can dig deeper into my Mayflower<\/em> roots.<\/p>\n

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GenealogyBank newspaper search results for the terms \u201cMayflower Samuel Fuller\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking at some of the article snippet views I see an obituary notice of Mrs. Harriet M. Clapp, a Fuller descendant; an article about the Mayflower<\/em> signers; an article from a genealogy column that appeared in the Plain Dealer<\/em> (Cleveland, Ohio); and an article about the cradle used by Dr. Samuel Fuller\u2019s children.<\/p>\n

These are clearly some solid articles I can use for my Mayflower<\/em> genealogy research. I will want to take the time to sift through and study each one, noting and following each clue to trace my Mayflower<\/em> ancestry.<\/p>\n

Looking at my initial overview of the Mayflower<\/em> search results, they also include 48 obituaries from our Recent Obituaries collection. After clicking on those results, I see that these 48 hits are also going to be useful in helping me learn more about my Mayflower<\/em> ancestors.<\/p>\n

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GenealogyBank recent obituary search results for the terms \u201cMayflower Samuel Fuller\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is common for individuals to be enthusiastic about their family history\u2014so much so that they often refer to it even in their obituary.<\/p>\n

Great. This gives me even more articles to read through and add more relatives to my family tree.<\/p>\n

I expect that researching my Mayflower<\/em> lines using this wide approach will net me over 1,000 very useful and targeted articles, letting me add hundreds of new relatives to my family tree.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be a busy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n

From old passenger lists to recent obituaries, you can find records to discover more about your early American roots in GenealogyBank\u2019s online archives.<\/p>\n

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With Thanksgiving just six days away, I thought I would search for any articles in GenealogyBank\u2019s archives that mentioned Dr. Samuel Fuller\u2014who was one of my Mayflower ancestors. I searched putting the terms \u201cMayflower Samuel Fuller\u201d in the \u201cInclude Keywords\u201d search box. Bang\u2014GenealogyBank returned over 1,800 records. That\u2019s great; I can spend a long Thanksgiving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3,1129,1658,2233,1656,2084,2684,465,2191,5355,1074,2020,27,1084,5426,5430,2683,44,5493],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestry","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-family-tree","tag-family-trees","tag-harriet-m-clapp","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-history","tag-long","tag-mayflower","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-obituaries","tag-records","tag-research","tag-samuel-fuller","tag-thanksgiving","tag-the-mayflower"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","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=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}