{"id":52285,"date":"2019-08-26T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=52285"},"modified":"2019-08-26T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:09:47","slug":"their-big-day-13-august-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/their-big-day-13-august-1922.html","title":{"rendered":"Their Big Day: August 13, 1922"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I see that an upcoming date is also the same date as a relative\u2019s birthday, anniversary or even death date, I look for newspaper articles about their special day.<\/p>\n<p>That happened this month: August 13th was the 97th wedding anniversary of my grandparents, who were married in 1922. So, I checked GenealogyBank to see if it had articles about their wedding.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52287\" style=\"width: 984px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston-herald-newspaper-0813-1922-richmond-huse-marriage-notice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston-herald-newspaper-0813-1922-richmond-huse-marriage-notice.png\" alt=\"Richmond-Huse wedding notice, Boston Herald newspaper article 13 August 1922\" width=\"984\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston-herald-newspaper-0813-1922-richmond-huse-marriage-notice.png 984w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston-herald-newspaper-0813-1922-richmond-huse-marriage-notice-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/boston-herald-newspaper-0813-1922-richmond-huse-marriage-notice-768x359.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 13 August 1922, page 27<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Check the old newspapers for articles about the special days of your ancestors\u2019 lives. See if the newspaper reported on them and what the news was that day.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers, such as the collection in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&s_referrer=social&s_siteloc=blog&s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&kbid=69919&pq=1&prebuy=no&intver=&CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, recorded every day of our ancestors\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about finding the 13 August 1922 wedding notice for his grandparents in an old newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,2045,2020],"class_list":["post-52285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-marriage-records","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/illustration-1202-2016-featured-graphic-wedding-rings.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52285","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=52285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}