Newspapers can contain information you may not expect.
This item from an 1898 edition of the Denver, Colorado, Denver Post discusses the “disappearance” of a relative and his apparent “reappearance” with a girlfriend.
Stories you find may not be quite as scandalous, but details in newspapers can help you fill out your picture of a relative.
This item was obtained on GenealogyBank–sponsor of Genealogy of the Day.
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I’ve been coming to that possibllite after reading a couple of articles on missing people.
Michael John Neill, your Troutfetter ancestor and my great grandfather, M.T. Ward (Michael Thomas Ward), had a lot in common. M.T. Ward was based (loosely) in Denver, had “wives” (often rooming house proprietors) in Colorado, Utah, California, Washington, and perhaps elsewhere — during the same time period. M.T. appeared in newspapers dozens of times between 1880 and 1906, with 1901 and 1905 being his most active periods. Sounds like a very similar lifestyle…. If your Troutfetter was a moneylender, perhaps my M.T. Ward was a client of his. Who cheated whom is anybody’s guess! I found my very first evidence of M.T. Ward’s shenanigans in GenealogyBank newspaper articles.