{"id":4135,"date":"2013-07-18T16:08:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2013-07-18T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:08:16","slug":"case-study-part-2-how-to-find-old-newspaper-articles-about-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/case-study-part-2-how-to-find-old-newspaper-articles-about-family.html","title":{"rendered":"Case Study Part 2: How to Find Old Newspaper Articles about Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I continued to look in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> for the history of the Crofoot family (see: \u201cCase Study: Using Old Newspaper Articles to Learn about Your Ancestors<\/a>\u201d) I found another clue.<\/p>\n

\"Connecticut<\/a>
Connecticut Journal (New Haven, Connecticut), 10 March 1829, page 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another wife?<\/p>\n

This historical obituary<\/a> was for Mrs. Esther Crofoot who was the \u201cwife of Ephraim C.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notice the newspaper editor simply gave his name as \u201cEphraim C.,\u201d not repeating the surname Crofoot. The context was clear to the reader in this death notice, but these on-the-fly abbreviations can make it difficult to find every article about our target family.<\/p>\n

So\u2014we have an Ephraim Crofoot with a wife Esther, most likely married in the 1820s.<\/p>\n

Earlier we found that an Ephraim Crofoot married Elizabeth W. Winship in 1830 and Betsey Sampson in 1850.<\/p>\n

Is it the same Ephraim Crofoot in all three marriages?<\/p>\n

It takes time to piece together the genealogical clues and facts that document a family tree.<\/p>\n

In the weeks ahead I will continue to report on my newspaper findings about the Crofoot family and provide similar examples from other typical families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I continued to look in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives for the history of the Crofoot family (see: \u201cCase Study: Using Old Newspaper Articles to Learn about Your Ancestors\u201d) I found another clue. Another wife? This historical obituary was for Mrs. Esther Crofoot who was the \u201cwife of Ephraim C.\u201d Notice the newspaper editor simply […]<\/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":[3,4519,1102,4513,5302,4509,4551,1129,1658,2233,1656,1036,12,1661,465,2191,1103,5457],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestry","tag-betsey-sampson","tag-connecticut","tag-crofoot","tag-death","tag-ephraim-crofoot","tag-esther-crofoot","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-family-tree","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-history","tag-michigan","tag-wife"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","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=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}