{"id":17494,"date":"2024-01-08T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17494"},"modified":"2024-01-09T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:39:45","slug":"small-town-newspapers-listing-of-family-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/08\/small-town-newspapers-listing-of-family-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Town Newspapers Listing of Family Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It may seem tedious to go through all those entries for a relative in small-town newspaper. A weekly newspaper may regularly mention your relative or family members attending various functions. But sometimes all those references can help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cousin of my grandmother&#8217;s was married several times. The difficulty was finding the actual first name of her last husband&#8211;who she married in the 1950s. He was listed only by his initials in her obituary and a marriage in the local area could not be located. So I started going through the social columns in the local weekly newspaper. After much looking, I found a mention of the cousin&#8211;with her husband&#8217;s first name&#8211;in a 1957 writeup of an anniversary celebration of an older family member. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it took a little time because I had to look at every reference to the cousin in hopes that her husband&#8217;s first name would be listed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem tedious to go through all those entries for a relative in small-town newspaper. A weekly newspaper may regularly mention your relative or family members attending various functions. But sometimes all those references can help. A cousin of my grandmother&#8217;s was married several times. The difficulty was finding the actual first name of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}