{"id":340,"date":"2010-05-14T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2024-07-31T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T13:21:52","slug":"newspapers-are-crucial-to-documenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/newspapers-are-crucial-to-documenting.html","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers are crucial to documenting your family history"},"content":{"rendered":"
Genealogists rely on multiple sources to document a family tree.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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One source does not give all of the facts – so researchers must look at multiple family history records to gather the details for each family. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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For example – James Edwin Ayres (1817-1893) and his wife Ann (Ford) Ayres (1817-1901) are listed in the 1850 census for Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York. \"Screenshot:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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On closer inspection we see that there is an age gap between the children.<\/span><\/strong>\"Screenshot: James H. Ayres – born about 1842<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah Ayres – born about 1844<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

and Frederica Ayres born about 1849<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It appears that there might be another child that was probably born in 1846 and who died before 1850. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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A quick search of GenealogyBank<\/a> shows that was the case. \"Hudson<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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In the Hudson River Chronicle (Sing Sing, New York) – 12 December 1848<\/a><\/em> we find an obituary notice for Lovina Ayres stating that she was born 7 August 1846 and died 26 November 1848.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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TIP: Newspapers are essential for finding and documenting every person on your family tree. <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Search the census for free at FamilySearch.org
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Free! <\/span><\/strong><\/em>Click Here to search the 1850 Census<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
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Free! <\/span><\/strong><\/em>Click Here to search the 1920 Census<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
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Genealogists rely on multiple sources to document a family tree.   One source does not give all of the facts – so researchers must look at multiple family history records to gather the details for each family.   For example – James Edwin Ayres (1817-1893) and his wife Ann (Ford) Ayres (1817-1901) are listed in […]<\/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":[1142,1878,634,1129,1658,1656,1143,1036,1661,2191,1674,1829,5351,546,1874,455,27,1068,5426,462,499,5457,1704],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-census","tag-center","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-tree","tag-familysearch","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-history","tag-id","tag-in","tag-james","tag-kalamazoo-gazette","tag-ms","tag-new-york","tag-newspapers","tag-obituary","tag-records","tag-tip","tag-westchester-county","tag-wife","tag-york"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99981,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/99981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}