{"id":99,"date":"2008-11-24T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2024-08-09T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T17:34:39","slug":"wow-i-love-genealogybank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wow-i-love-genealogybank.html","title":{"rendered":"Wow – I love GenealogyBank."},"content":{"rendered":"

We routinely hear from genealogists telling about their success – “Wow, look what I found!” <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We really love to hear those stories and today it is my turn. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Last week I was stunned to find that one of my cousins had posted early photographs of our family online. <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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There they were – the actual pictures of my third great-grandfather Isaac \"Photo:<\/a>Garcelon (1790-1872) <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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and his parents William (<\/span><\/span>1763-1851) <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
and Maria (Howe) Garcelon (1763-1850). <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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I could see why they were so bundled up. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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They were from Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. Having grown up in New England I am used to cold weather – the snow would stay on the north side of my grandparent’s home until April almost every year. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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This find got me to searching in GenealogyBank<\/a> to find out more about them. I simply searched the name: William Garcelon and quickly found death notices for William Garcelon (1763-1851) that were published in two newspapers, one in Massachusetts and one in Maine. <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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The Boston Evening Transcript<\/em> \"The<\/a>23 Jan 1851<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

and in the Portland Daily Advertiser<\/em> (29 Jan 1851).<\/span><\/strong>
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Then I quickly spotted the marriage announcement of William’s nephew – Captain Asa Garcelon (1796-1859) that was published in the Eastern Argus<\/em> (Maine) 16 March 1825.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Notice that every one of these articles appeared in out-of-town or out-of-state newspapers. <\/span><\/strong>\"Eastern<\/a><\/p>\n

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TIP<\/span>: Colonial and 19th Century Newspapers often printed out of town birth, marriage and death notices. <\/span>GenealogyBank<\/span><\/a> makes them easy to find because it let’s you search all 3,700 newspapers for your ancestors. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TIP: Be flexible in your searches and remember that their obituaries or marriage notices just might have been printed in out of state newspapers – like the wedding announcement of Nicholas Goodson and Sarah Matthews in Isle of Wight County, Virginia – that was published in the Maine newspaper – the Eastern Argus<\/em> in 1825. Like cable news television stations today – newspapers carried news from across the country. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There were no articles telling if Nicholas Goodson was ever arrested. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is a great day for genealogy. What an opportunity we have to find these historic artifacts, articles and documents about our family. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tip: Search <\/strong><\/span>GenealogyBank<\/strong><\/span><\/a> now.
\nWhat will you find?<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We routinely hear from genealogists telling about their success – “Wow, look what I found!” We really love to hear those stories and today it is my turn. Last week I was stunned to find that one of my cousins had posted early photographs of our family online. There they were – the actual pictures […]<\/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":[822,4,1059,1878,7,5302,682,1129,1036,12,1661,1758,1674,1829,1041,1082,22,2050,1067,1734,687,1874,5365,747,5366,1038,27,821,1084,1068,1929,1050,5445,462,1094,2153,819],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-androscoggin-county","tag-birth","tag-boston","tag-center","tag-colonial","tag-death","tag-england","tag-family","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-grandfather","tag-id","tag-in","tag-lewiston","tag-maine","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-notices","tag-massachusetts","tag-me","tag-monthly-plan","tag-ms","tag-nephew","tag-new-england","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-nicholas-goodson","tag-obituaries","tag-obituary","tag-or","tag-portland","tag-television","tag-tip","tag-virginia","tag-wedding","tag-william-garcelon"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100103,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}