{"id":4235,"date":"2013-07-31T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2013-07-31T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:13:31","slug":"christina-applegate-finds-family-with-genealogybank-on-wdytya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/christina-applegate-finds-family-with-genealogybank-on-wdytya.html","title":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate Finds Family with GenealogyBank on WDYTYA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogists are relying on newspaper archives more and more to document the stories of their ancestors and trace their family trees. In last night\u2019s episode of <em>Who Do You Think You Are?<\/em> American actress <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christina_Applegate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christina Applegate<\/a> used an old article found in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/newspapers\/explore\/USA\/New_Jersey\/Trenton\/Trenton_Evening_Times\/\">Trenton Sunday Times Advertiser<\/a> (Trenton, New Jersey), 26 August 1934, to learn more about her family history. Notice the family resemblance with her grandmother and great-aunt: Lavina and Delilah Shaw.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4236\" style=\"width: 716px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/collage-0731-2013-christina-applegate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4236\" title=\"collage-0731-2013-christina-applegate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/collage-0731-2013-christina-applegate.png\" alt=\"collage of a photo of American actress Christina Applegate and a newspaper clipping of her ancestors\" width=\"716\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/collage-0731-2013-christina-applegate.png 716w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/collage-0731-2013-christina-applegate-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/collage-0731-2013-christina-applegate-386x300.png 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Wikipedia and GenealogyBank.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dig into GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all\">newspaper archives<\/a> and see what you can find out about your ancestry now!<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclaimer: GenealogyBank is not affiliated with TLC TV Network or the Who Do You Think You Are? television program.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogists are relying on newspaper archives more and more to document the stories of their ancestors and trace their family trees. In last night\u2019s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? American actress Christina Applegate used an old article found in GenealogyBank\u2019s Trenton Sunday Times Advertiser (Trenton, New Jersey), 26 August 1934, to learn [&hellip;]<\/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":[4610,4611,3,4609,1760,4608,4612,1129,1658,2233,5197,465,2191,4613,2020,27,4614,5445,481,2318,2319],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-actresses","tag-american-actresses","tag-ancestry","tag-applegate","tag-aunt","tag-christina-applegate","tag-delilah-shaw","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-grandmother","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-history","tag-lavina-shaw","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-shaw","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-wdytya","tag-who-do-you-think-you-are"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","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=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}