{"id":80373,"date":"2021-09-20T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=80373"},"modified":"2021-09-20T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:01:15","slug":"genealogy-tip-use-more-than-one-source-a-case-study-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-tip-use-more-than-one-source-a-case-study-part-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Tip: Use More than One Source; a Case Study, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/em><\/strong>: In Part II of this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega uses a case study from her own family history research to show the importance of using more than once source. Gena is a genealogist and author of the book \u201cFrom the Family Kitchen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

To recap:<\/em><\/strong> In Part I<\/a> of this article, Gena began genealogy research one day with a notice she found about Dr. Henrietta K. Morris in an occupational source: the Woman\u2019s Medical Journal<\/em> from June 1896. Intrigued, she searched a second occupational source for more information, then turned to newspapers to help fill in Dr. Morris\u2019 story. Part I concluded with her doing a very specific search and finding one obituary, but wanting more.<\/p>\n

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Photo: obituary for Dr. Henrietta K. Morris from the \u201cWoman\u2019s Medical Journal,\u201d June 1896, that started the author\u2019s search. Credit: Harvard University; Google.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, what now? Is that the end of my newspaper search? My initial search only yielded one result. I believed there should be more written about Dr. Morris in the newspapers, and so I decided to conduct another search using different search parameters.<\/p>\n

I went back to GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> and simply searched on \u201cHenrietta K Morris.\u201d No date, no state, and I placed that exact phrase search (her name inside of quote marks) in the \u201cFirst Name\u201d box of the search engine. This search yielded 36 results. I sorted the results by \u201cNewest Publication Date\u201d hoping to easily find articles from 1896 about her death.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

By not narrowing my search by a date range or place I run the risk of receiving results for similarly named women, and that was the case with one of the results. That would be a bigger concern with a more common name.<\/p>\n

In those 36 results was a newspaper article about Dr. Morris\u2019 funeral published in the Chicago Record<\/em>. And the best part of this result is that it included a portrait drawing of Dr. Morris.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Record (Chicago, Illinois), 12 February 1896, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What do we learn about Dr. Morris from this newspaper article?<\/p>\n