{"id":4850,"date":"2013-10-01T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2013-10-01T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:48:41","slug":"what-can-i-find-in-genealogybank-about-my-cousin-maid-marion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/what-can-i-find-in-genealogybank-about-my-cousin-maid-marion.html","title":{"rendered":"What Can I Find in GenealogyBank about My Cousin Maid Marion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I don\u2019t mean Robin Hood\u2019s love interest from the 16th century.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m referring to my cousin Marion Morgan Kemp (1862-1963) who owned villas in France, New York and Rome.<\/p>\n

Years ago I contacted the authorities in Osmoy, France, where she died and received a copy of her death certificate.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Thomas Jay Kemp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since Marion lived most of her life overseas, I wondered if I could find more details of her life in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I quickly found many old newspaper articles about her that gave me a better sense of Marion\u2019s social and civic activities. She not only hosted many events, but also during World War II\u2014after the Allies retook Rome in June of 1944\u2014she lent her personal villa for the use of President Roosevelt\u2019s representative in Rome.<\/p>\n

If you read the news article about the villa takeover carefully, you\u2019ll see that her 60-room villa was highly sought after, causing \u201ca scramble among high Allied officers who wanted it.\u201d President Roosevelt\u2019s personal representative, Myron Taylor, won the right to occupy her prized villa when he showed up with a personal letter from Marion\u2014turns out they had known each other for many years.<\/p>\n

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Credit: GenealogyBank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notice where the above three articles about Marion appeared:<\/p>\n

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  • \u201cMrs. Coolidge Honored,\u201d Springfield Union<\/em> (Springfield, Massachusetts), 14 August 1949, page 16.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cSporting Tea in Stable,\u201d Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 9 April 1905, page 8.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cMyron Taylor Wins Row over Mansion in Rome,\u201d Richmond Times Dispatch<\/em> (Richmond, Virginia), 4 July 1944, page 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    These are terrific articles, published in newspapers from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Not locations where I had expected to find more information about my ancestor, but pleasant surprises nonetheless.<\/p>\n

    I had almost limited my record search to only New York newspapers, since that is one of the cities where she owned a home\u2014but I went with a full search of GenealogyBank. It\u2019s a good thing I did\u2014 I otherwise wouldn\u2019t have discovered the interesting news articles I found that gave me a glimpse into her life.<\/p>\n

    Genealogy Search Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Cast a wide net when searching newspapers and gather in all of the articles about your family. You never know what you might find out about your ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    No, I don\u2019t mean Robin Hood\u2019s love interest from the 16th century. I\u2019m referring to my cousin Marion Morgan Kemp (1862-1963) who owned villas in France, New York and Rome. Years ago I contacted the authorities in Osmoy, France, where she died and received a copy of her death certificate. Since Marion lived most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[5291,5302,1129,1658,2233,3267,465,852,3358,5354,443,5048,1067,5360,5053,455,5366,2020,27,530,5052,509,1106,5050,5054,5446,1676,1094,2437,2428],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-cousin","tag-death","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-france","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-italy","tag-kemp","tag-life","tag-ma","tag-marion-morgan-kemp","tag-massachusetts","tag-morgan","tag-myron-taylor","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-ny","tag-osmoy","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-rome","tag-taylor","tag-thomas","tag-va","tag-virginia","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwii"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","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=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}