{"id":63831,"date":"2020-12-16T11:38:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=63831"},"modified":"2020-12-16T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:38:31","slug":"christmas-humor-of-the-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/christmas-humor-of-the-19th-century.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Humor of the 19th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to find our ancestors\u2019 Christmas humor from the 19th<\/sup> century. Mary is a genealogist, author, and editor with a strong technology background who has written and collected some of the funniest, quirkiest, or most touching sayings about genealogy that she\u2019s encountered in her career as a family historian. Please attribute this article if sharing.<\/em><\/p>\n

From jokes about holes in stockings to ones about Santa, there\u2019s a myriad of old-time humor just waiting to be found in old newspapers, such as GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>. Below find some of this year\u2019s picks. Hope you enjoy them!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a mischievous use of mistletoe:<\/p>\n

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Photo: 1895 Puck Christmas issue. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note: With just a few exceptions (for example, by the humorist with the pseudonym \u201cPuck\u201d), these Christmas jokes were shared from paper to paper and printed with no attribution, which is why this article features them by date.<\/p>\n

1850<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mississippi Free Trader (Natchez, Mississippi), 13 March 1850, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1880<\/strong><\/p>\n