{"id":5059,"date":"2013-10-22T15:26:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2018-07-30T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T17:53:40","slug":"find-preserve-your-familys-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/find-preserve-your-familys-stories.html","title":{"rendered":"Find & Preserve Your Family\u2019s Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up hearing the old family stories.<\/p>\n

There was no television in New Hampshire in those days, but my grandfather remembered the family stories and passed them down.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Wikipedia & Internet Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As kids there was one particular story we always wanted to hear every night: the story of when Indians attacked the family cabin in 1724. This story has been passed down in the family for almost 290 years!<\/p>\n

I wondered if there was a contemporary account of this in the old newspapers of the day. After a steady search, I found nothing about the attack on my ancestors\u2019 cabin published in 18th century newspapers.<\/p>\n

But\u2014I did find this, in an 1825 newspaper.<\/p>\n

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New Hampshire Republican (Dover, New Hampshire), 25 January 1825, page 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One hundred years after the attack occurred, an announcement about my ancestor Elizabeth Hanson\u2019s story was published in the newspaper.<\/p>\n

She had written about her ordeal, and eventually her personal account was finally published.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Internet Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I already knew about the story\u2014but now I had a near-contemporary account and it was the same story that my grandfather told us, almost word for word. What a wonderful keepsake to have and pass down to keep her story alive!<\/p>\n

Search the old newspapers and other online genealogy resources and get your family\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n

Find what has been written about them for the past 300 years.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t let your family\u2019s history be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about researching old newspapers and the Internet to find more details of your family history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34549,"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-5059","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\/2013\/10\/collage-1022-2013-featured-graphic-indian-attack.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","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=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}