{"id":258,"date":"2009-07-25T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:37:34","slug":"newspaper-articles-can-tell-us-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/newspaper-articles-can-tell-us-about.html","title":{"rendered":"The Old Cemetery – a tour in 1822"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newspaper articles can tell us about our ancestors and also the details of the cemeteries where they were buried.<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“English names often startled us<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
as we walked through<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
the alleys of tombstones…”<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
(Photo: Craig Patik, 2000)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>I found this article giving a detailed tour of the P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery (Cimeti\u00e8re du P\u00e8re-Lachaise) written in 1822 – one of the oldest and most visited cemeteries in Paris if not the world.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Click Here<\/span>: to read the complete article published in the <\/strong><\/span>30 April 1822 Eastern Argus (Portland, ME)<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos\u2019d, <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos\u2019d, <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn\u2019d, <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
By strangers honour\u2019d, and by strangers mourn\u2019d!<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Alexander Pope \u201cElegy To The Memory Of An Unfortunate Lady. 1717\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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\"Collage:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Newspaper articles can tell us about our ancestors and also the details of the cemeteries where they were buried. “English names often startled us as we walked through the alleys of tombstones…” (Photo: Craig Patik, 2000) I found this article giving a detailed tour of the P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery (Cimeti\u00e8re du P\u00e8re-Lachaise) written in 1822 […]<\/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":[1878,596,5304,1129,1661,5320,1674,1829,629,1734,1874,1038,27,817,593,594,1050,494],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-center","tag-eastern-argus-portland","tag-english","tag-family","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-heritage","tag-id","tag-in","tag-la","tag-me","tag-ms","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-old-newspapers","tag-paris","tag-photo-craig-patik","tag-portland","tag-us"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100202,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/100202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}