{"id":29477,"date":"2018-02-27T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=29477"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:35:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:35:45","slug":"searching-old-newspapers-finding-the-details-about-your-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/searching-old-newspapers-finding-the-details-about-your-family.html","title":{"rendered":"Searching Old Newspapers: Finding the Details about Your Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

While searching GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> recently, I found several articles about my grandfather Willard H. Kemp.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Daily Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 26 February 1901, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn\u2019t know that.
\nThey gave my grandfather a silver watch? As \u201ca reward for collecting the most money of any child in the Sunday-school.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was only 8 years old.
\nHow much money could he possibly have collected?<\/p>\n

I also discovered that he was the pitcher and team captain for the Whippoorwill Juniors, a baseball team in Stamford, Connecticut, when he was 13 years old.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Daily Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 15 April 1905, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn\u2019t know that either.<\/p>\n

Yale & Towne, a lock company, was founded in Stamford in 1868. The company grew \u2013 this is how it looked in 1897 when my grandfather was 5 years old.<\/p>\n

\"Illustration:<\/a>
Illustration: Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co, 1897. Credit: Henry Roland; Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A major company in town, it spread over multiple city blocks and was the largest employer in Stamford.<\/p>\n

I knew that my grandfather was a salesman for Yale & Towne<\/a>. What I didn\u2019t know was that he had attended the Merrill Business College to qualify for that position.<\/p>\n

I found this article showing that he graduated from the business school on 28 June 1909, when he was 17 years old.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Daily Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 30 June 1909, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Details, details.
\nEach one tells a bit of my grandfather\u2019s story, and helps complete the story of our family history.<\/p>\n

Thanks to GenealogyBank I now know more about my grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about searching old newspapers to learn more about his grandfather, Willard H. Kemp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,2020],"class_list":["post-29477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/illustration-0227-2018-featured-graphic-yale-towne-company.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29477","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=29477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}