{"id":80,"date":"2008-08-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2024-08-15T10:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:32:44","slug":"newspapers-good-source-for-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/newspapers-good-source-for-birth.html","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers are a good source for birth records – family details"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Duluth News Tribune<\/em> (13 Jan 1918) reported that more than half of the births \"Duluth<\/a>registered for Duluth were simply listed as “male” or “female” child. This can be a problem for genealogists today but it was also a problem for one Minnesotan in 1918 who was trying to establish he was the legal heir to a family estate. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Per the article the local health department was going to begin to routinely follow-up with parents to have them file ammended birth certificates so that the names of the children would be permanently recorded. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Newspapers regularly published birth announcements which included the names of the new child; date\/place of birth; names of the parents and often the names of siblings, grandparents and other genealogical information. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In this example from the Columbus (GA) Enquirer Sun<\/em> (22 Sept 1922) you can find the \"Columbus<\/a>core information – names of the new children, their parents and the dates of birth. <\/span><\/strong>
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\n<\/span><\/strong>Note that the announcements also give the maiden names of the mother and that Porterdeat Golden Smith was named for his maternal grandfather. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Newspapers are a terrific source to get the details we need to document our families. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Search GenealogyBank<\/a> and see what you’ll find. <\/span><\/strong>
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The Duluth News Tribune (13 Jan 1918) reported that more than half of the births registered for Duluth were simply listed as “male” or “female” child. This can be a problem for genealogists today but it was also a problem for one Minnesotan in 1918 who was trying to establish he was the legal heir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[5245,4,2027,1913,1910,1653,2372,662,1129,884,1036,1661,1758,1674,1829,1761,1874,5366,1038,27,1929,849,5426,3717],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-announcements","tag-birth","tag-birth-announcements","tag-birth-certificates","tag-birth-records","tag-columbus","tag-duluth","tag-duluth-news-tribune","tag-family","tag-ga","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-grandfather","tag-id","tag-in","tag-mother","tag-ms","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-or","tag-porterdeat-golden-smith","tag-records","tag-smith"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100179,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/100179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}