{"id":52849,"date":"2019-09-23T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=52849"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:01:51","slug":"genealogy-tip-read-all-the-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-tip-read-all-the-clues.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Tip: Read All the Clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure you read every genealogical record carefully, such as this 1830 obituary for Captain Henry Bowne, to find every clue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52851\" style=\"width: 564px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A10C61B0A8F932EC0%40GB3NEWS-135B960244260300%402389454-135B8F8906309840%402-13C2CCD21BEC36A7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/albany-argus-newspaper-0101-1830-henry-bowne.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Henry Bowne, Albany Argus newspaper article 1 January 1830\" width=\"564\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/albany-argus-newspaper-0101-1830-henry-bowne.png 564w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/albany-argus-newspaper-0101-1830-henry-bowne-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albany Argus (Albany, New York), 1 January 1830, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What are the clues in this obituary?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Captain Henry Bowne died in Charlton, Saratoga County, New York.<\/li>\n<li>He died \u201con the 25th inst.\u201d \u2013 what does that mean? The abbreviation \u201cinst.\u201d means \u201cinstantance\u201d \u2013 the most recent \u201c25th.\u201d In this case the most recent 25th would be the 25th of December in the previous year. So, he died on 25 December 1829.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCaptain\u201d and \u201cHe was a patriot of the revolution\u201d \u2013 We learn that he had served in the Revolutionary War. He was known by the title \u201cCaptain,\u201d perhaps a clue to his military rank in the Revolutionary War.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cin the 79th year of his age\u201d \u2013 So, he was 79 years old and presumably born about 1750.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cformerly a resident of this city\u201d \u2013 \u201cThis city\u201d refers to the city where the newspaper was published. So, this tells us that he used to live in Albany, New York \u2013 another excellent clue.<\/li>\n<li>Statements about his achievements and good character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Armed with all of the clues, you can more effectively search and find additional records for Henry Bowne.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Read every genealogical record carefully. Gather all of the facts and clues so that you can accurately document the life of each of your relatives and the esteem that others had for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp examines an 1830 obituary for Captain Henry Bowne and shows all the genealogical clues it provides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52861,"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-52849","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\/09\/illustration-0221-2019-featured-graphic-man-computer-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52849","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=52849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}