{"id":8262,"date":"2014-09-17T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=8262"},"modified":"2014-09-17T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:34:40","slug":"getting-your-ancestors-obituary-and-a-bonus-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/getting-your-ancestors-obituary-and-a-bonus-too.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting Your Ancestor\u2019s Obituary and a Bonus, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

GenealogyBank\u2019s deep backfile newspaper archives<\/a> are packed with stories\u2014over 1.6 billion of them.<\/p>\n

I like it when old obituaries give key details in the lives of our ancestors. It\u2019s always a bonus when you find that a photo was included with their obituary.<\/p>\n

Here are some examples:<\/p>\n

\"obituary<\/a>
Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 4 April 1915, page 16<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"obituary<\/a>
Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 6 March 1902, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"obituary<\/a>
Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 26 April 1921, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These great stories and photos were found in the Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) Newspaper Archives (1861\u20131987)<\/a>. Dig into our Newspaper Archives (1690 – 2010)<\/a> and see what you find.<\/p>\n

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GenealogyBank\u2019s deep backfile newspaper archives are packed with stories\u2014over 1.6 billion of them. I like it when old obituaries give key details in the lives of our ancestors. It\u2019s always a bonus when you find that a photo was included with their obituary. Here are some examples: These great stories and photos were found in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1658,2233,12,465,2424,2020,27,4818,1084,5059],"class_list":["post-8262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-genealogy","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-historical-obituaries","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-newspapers-for-genealogy","tag-obituaries","tag-obituary-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262","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=8262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}