I searched for them everywhere in New York, and then I spotted a Marion Sullivan in New Jersey listed in the 1940 U.S. Census<\/a>. Hmm\u2026 this listing has the right children\u2019s names.<\/p>\n OK. The ages match \u2013 the children match. This looks like her census record \u2013 but I\u2019m not sure why her husband William is called \u201cDewey.\u201d Perhaps that was his nickname.<\/p>\n Digging further, I turned to GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> \u2013 and I found their son John<\/a>\u2019s obituary.<\/p>\n This obituary confirmed the names of the family and where the family members lived. It stated that he was born in Plainfield, New Jersey \u2013 and that in addition to his wife, his two brothers had also passed away.<\/p>\n It is great that these resources are all available online. Thank you GenealogyBank!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about how a census record and an obituary helped him fill in some of the details on his family tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48431,"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":[6976,12,2719,2020,1084],"class_list":["post-48415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-census-records","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-obituaries"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/photo-0209-2016-featured-graphic-brick-wall.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48415","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=48415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Photo:](\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/census-1940-marion-sullivan.png\")
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\nI did not know that the family had moved to New Jersey.
\nArmed with this information I was able to frame the family correctly.<\/p>\n