{"id":4644,"date":"2013-09-12T15:17:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2013-09-12T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T15:17:29","slug":"megan-smolenyak-unclaimed-persons-genealogybank-in-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/megan-smolenyak-unclaimed-persons-genealogybank-in-wsj.html","title":{"rendered":"Megan Smolenyak, \u2018Unclaimed Persons\u2019 &#038; GenealogyBank in WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting feature article about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unclaimedpersons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unclaimed Persons<\/a>.\u201d In 2008 Megan Smolenyak started \u201cUnclaimed Persons\u201d to help coroners track down the family details of persons who died without leaving information about their next of kin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4645\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-0912-2013-wall-street-journal-genealogy-article.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4645\" title=\"photo-0912-2013-wall-street-journal-genealogy-article\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-0912-2013-wall-street-journal-genealogy-article.png\" alt=\"Internet Sleuths on the Hunt for Next of Kin, Credit: Wall Street Journal newspaper article 10 September 2013\" width=\"552\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-0912-2013-wall-street-journal-genealogy-article.png 552w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-0912-2013-wall-street-journal-genealogy-article-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Wall Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She started this project assisting the coroner of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, and it has now grown to assist coroners in 40 states. There are over 500 volunteers working on hundreds of unsolved cases.<\/p>\n<p>We were particularly proud to see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\">GenealogyBank<\/a> was cited as one of the top Internet sites to comb for clues when doing this difficult family detective work. We are pleased to be assisting genealogists every day, including these genealogical volunteers working to bring closure in the cases of these persons who had lost touch with their families.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete Wall Street Journal article \u201cInternet Sleuths on the Hunt for Next of Kin\u201d online here: <a title=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323893004579060051928045642.html Ctrl+Click to follow link\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323893004579060051928045642.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323893004579060051928045642.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting feature article about \u201cUnclaimed Persons.\u201d In 2008 Megan Smolenyak started \u201cUnclaimed Persons\u201d to help coroners track down the family details of persons who died without leaving information about their next of kin. She started this project assisting the coroner of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, and it [&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":[4893,1129,1661,4891,4697,27,509,1106,4892,4890],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-coroners","tag-family","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-megan-smolenyak","tag-newspapers","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-smolenyak","tag-unclaimed-persons"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","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=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}