{"id":246,"date":"2009-07-09T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2024-08-15T10:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:14:43","slug":"here-comes-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/here-comes-bride.html","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the bride …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newspaper marriage announcements can give you important clues for your family history.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Boston Journal – 2 May 1877<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
\"Boston<\/a>This one tells us where & when the marriage took place; the name of the minister; <\/span><\/strong>the names of the bride & groom and where they were from.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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\"Public<\/a>This marriage notice from the Public Ledger 23 March 1863<\/a><\/em> states that Mary A. Middleton was the second daughter of Robert C. Middleton and that Annie M. Smith was the youngest daughter of the late Col. Kenderton Smith.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Boston<\/a>Here is a good example of 4 Generations of a family gathering for a wedding. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(<\/span><\/em>Boston Journal 12 July 1906<\/span><\/em><\/a>).<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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And then there is this example of a wedding announcement that includes too much information. (Idaho Statesman 28 Oct 1922<\/a><\/em>). <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Newspaper marriage announcements can give you important clues for your family history. Boston Journal – 2 May 1877 This one tells us where & when the marriage took place; the name of the minister; the names of the bride & groom and where they were from.   This marriage notice from the Public Ledger 23 […]<\/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":[619,5245,4,1059,613,997,996,617,5301,1129,1658,1661,2191,1674,1044,591,620,612,22,2051,1874,618,1038,27,611,3717,494,2153],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-alexander-campbell","tag-announcements","tag-birth","tag-boston","tag-boston-journal","tag-christian-church","tag-christian-county","tag-daily-new-mexican","tag-daughter","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-history","tag-id","tag-idaho","tag-idaho-statesman","tag-indian-pueblo","tag-kenderton-smith","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-announcements","tag-ms","tag-new-mexico","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-public-ledger","tag-smith","tag-us","tag-wedding"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99853,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/99853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}