[APG Public List] Advice on Finding more recent information

[todd white]

Hi Bonnie, 

I had tried most of what you mentioned in your email. However, I did want to ask you about newspaperarchive.com. I haven't seen this site before. It looks as though it is $72 a year to sign up. Do you recommend it? I'm wondering how many additional articles it actually pulls up versus just doing a google search. I'm willing to sign up if it's been helpful to some people. 

Thanks for the advice, 

Todd White 

--- On Wed, 12/16/09, Bonnie Kohler <kohlerbj at bellsouth.net> wrote:

From: Bonnie Kohler <kohlerbj at bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [APG Public List] Advice on Finding more recent information
To: "todd white" <toddmichaelwhite at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 9:42 PM



 
 

Hi Todd.
 
I guess you're going to hear a lot of the same 
suggestions.

  1. Newspaper account of the engagement and/or marriage 
  (ask a librarian to search or try something like 
  Newspaperarchive.com)
  2. Do a first name and birth year (based upon other 
  census years) search of the census for the town in which they lived when they 
  married and see if there are any likely candidates. Use the grandmother's 
  obituary to identify siblings that might appear on the census with the 
  grandmother in her family home.
  3. For both grandmothers, see if their obits 
  mention their parents' names or a brother, who would have their 
  maiden surname.
  4. Do a literature search online at Heritage 
  Quest or Google Books for the county in which they lived for a history of the 
  county that might include them, or look for a book written about the husband's 
  family that might mention to whom the husband married.
  5. Look for a marriage for the husband at FamilySearch. 
  (I think you said you did that.) Look for the births of the children at 
  FamilySearch. The parents names would be mentioned.
  6. I was surprised when I found information about a 
  contemporary couple at FamilySearch. I thought all of the information was old, 
  but there is some fairly current information in the Ancestral 
  Files.
Just adding to the mix of 
suggestions.
 
Bonnie Dunphy Kohler
South Florida

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  todd white 
  To: apgpubliclist at apgen.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:16 
  PM
  Subject: [APG Public List] Advice on 
  Finding more recent information
  

  
    
    
      I'm sure this question is probably too broad, but I'm 
        going to ask it anyway. My client thought he knew his grandmothers 
        maiden name but I cannot find her using that name. I'm creating a family 
        tree for him but without her name I can only explore his grandfathers 
        side of the family. 

I would get the information off of their 
        marriage license, however, they were married sometime around 1940 in New 
        Jersey. There are no marriage records I can access from a date as recent 
        as 1940. 

To top it off, we are in the same situation with his 
        great grandmother. He doesn't know her maiden name. She was married to 
        her husband in 1911. Again, too recent to access any marriage license. I 
        checked familysearch.org. I checked every resource I know of. 
        

Does anyone have any advice on looking up more recent 
        information?

Thank you all, 

Todd White 
    






      
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