{"id":48147,"date":"2019-02-20T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=48147"},"modified":"2019-02-20T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:13:57","slug":"genealogy-tip-be-careful-when-limiting-your-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-tip-be-careful-when-limiting-your-search.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Tip: Be Careful When Limiting Your Search"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am working on scanning my old family photos.
\nThis morning I took the next photo from the stack.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Source: Thomas Jay Kemp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the photo of my parents and grandparents at their wedding in 1945.<\/p>\n

I wondered what news articles were printed about their wedding.
\nI searched limiting my search to my dad\u2019s name and the month\/year of their wedding.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Keeping the search simple and narrowing it to just one month is a good way to quickly find the articles you want.<\/p>\n

Since his name, Willard Kemp, does not appear often in print, I did not limit the search to only New Hampshire newspapers \u2013 the state where they were married \u2013 but instead searched all 50 states.<\/p>\n

A search of GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> instantly brought back a hit.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 11 January 1945, page 15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Excellent article.<\/p>\n

Notice that the wedding took place in Laconia, New Hampshire \u2013 but the newspaper article was published in the groom\u2019s hometown newspaper in Stamford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

By limiting the search by name and date \u2013 but not limiting the search by state \u2013 I was able to quickly locate this article.<\/p>\n

What if I searched with a wider timeline?
\nSo, I repeated the search using the date range January 1945 to April 1945.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This pulled in another newspaper article. Notice this one was published in a third state, Massachusetts, the following month.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 18 February 1945, Rotogravure section, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a reminder that limiting your search by name, date and place can be useful \u2013 but by limiting your search too much you might miss out on an important article for your family history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article by Thomas Jay Kemp provides tips for searching through old newspapers to find information about your ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,2020],"class_list":["post-48147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/photo-0220-2019-featured-graphic-kemp-wedding.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48147","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=48147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}