Newspaper Search Tricks to Find Your Family

[@vibesmom]

Such a helpful video! Great info, and delivered in such a straightforward manner. Thank you!

[@AncestryAimee]

Thank you!

[@vibesmom]

@@AncestryAimee Your welcome! I’ve learned some great practices from your content.

[@dranet47]

Very good tips, thank you!

[@AncestryAimee]

You’re welcome!

[@angelauzdilla2362]

Oh Aimee thank you SOOOO MUCH ... I use newspaper all the time and i have found so much, but i have to say i have looked sometimes for years to find something. This will really help! Thank you!

[@AncestryAimee]

You’re welcome! Thanks

[@arlindanelson7928]

Great tips. I often forget about some of them and didn't know about others. Thanks for sharing.

[@AncestryAimee]

You bet! Thanks

[@faustbos]

Very good vid with great suggestions. I have one which may help. Alot of times, especially when you're starting to flesh out a family in the hope of backdooring your way into some info for your own family, I can spend hours or even days trying to get a hit. In family there are many names, like Clark, or Burns, and anyone researching Irish roots knows that you can have the same names down to the umpteeth kids they had. When I do manage to find a lead that I'm sure of, I often witch to the wifes maiden name. Many Obits in certain papers with list parents with WIFE (MAIDEN) (MARRIED). Suddenly I can map out the entire family. I helped one such family when I noticed they're was a third name on a tumb stone. They really had no information about the family, but with this one piece of info I was able to complete a picture for them that really had them dumb struck. The third name was of a young man whose life had fallen apart and unfortunately committed suicide in the depression. The story included accident deaths, foster families, movement between NY and DC, and all of this was pieced together with Newspaper searches, and then other documentation once I knew what I was looking for. Also, Italian being the other majoor ethnicity for me, I just assume that news papers will hear it wrong. I searched for information about my great grandfather for years, Picariello, until one day I just thought, "how would they get this wrong"... And sure enough, Picarello did they trick and I learned a bout the incident where he was killed. To support your suggestion, Picar*llo would have done the trick!!

[@AncestryAimee]

Great additions! Glad you liked the video and grateful you added those thoughts and examples!! Thanks!

[@vblake530530]

I’m here from. NYTN. Subscribed.!!!

[@AncestryAimee]

Yeah! Glad to have you and love Danielle!!

[@mikeburke8656]

"Facebook of the day" - I've heard this before.

[@ginasink1356]

Love your videos, but every time I look for the free handout (I’m a crew member) I can’t find it! Can you please enlighten? Thanks!

[@AncestryAimee]

Yes I can. Go to the community tab on my KZbin page and there will be posts that are for crew members only. They have the links. I actually just deleted a couple inadvertently. If you can’t find the one you are looking for, email me at [e-mail].

[@ginasink1356]

@@AncestryAimee thank you!

[@PamelaWells8880]

Hank you SO much! Great info! 😍

[@AncestryAimee]

Thank you @Pamela Wells!

[@faganquin6483]

another good one. i'm grappling with trying to search for and in foreign language papers of towns with immigrant neighborhoods. For example Rochester, NY had a very large german population in a part of town called Germantown (Deutschtown/Dutchtown) and I discovered there were several local papers in German and Dutch in the 1860s when my German and Dutch ancestors were living in that neighborhood. Even just looking at the pictures you can learn a lot about the area and people. My ancestors ran a grocery store so I look at those ads. Searching the papers is challenging and I wonder if you have any tips? The initial grunt work is trying to figure out what kind of paper it was politically socially etc so you can narrow the search down a bit - if they were Catholic it's unlikely they'd show up in a Protestant leaning paper etc. These are the times when we curse ourselves for not having taken our family's native tongue in high school! Any tips are greatly appreciated.

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks! That’s tough. Even the type in a German paper can be hard to decipher for me. I use Google translate or reach out to a friend who speaks the language. I don’t really have other tips. You can reach out to Facebook groups too or you might have a German speaker in your local genealogy society.

[@pegpowell2486]

Good info.

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks

[@ThisIsMyYoutubeName1]

I’m still working on my great great grandfather. I have subscriptions to Newspapers and Genealogy Bank. He is listed in the 1940 census, but no records after that. Not a single obit can be found. He was living in a fairly large city just south of your ancestor in Louisiana (it’s pronounced like “bye-you chi co”). I have his father, all but 1 sibling, haven’t been able to verify his mom yet. But cannot find a death certificate or notice, no burial, absolutely nothing. He is listed in his children’s obituaries and his fathers. My great great grandmother is listed as a widow in 1950. After watching your video on facts about FindAGrave, I’m tempted to just walk through different cemeteries. That’s not an easy task with Louisiana heat and humidity, in addition to most cemeteries that aren’t in the city have thousands of tombs in a very cramped area. Some are inches apart but facing different directions, it’s nearly impossible to get close enough to read and not fall into crumbling tombs.

[@AncestryAimee]

He should have a death certificate if he died after 1940. Maybe he died in another state? Have you increased your search to other states? Looked in city directories to see when he's last listed? Sometimes women are listed in census records as widows when they are in fact divorced or abandoned. I'm not saying that is the case here, but I wanted to point it out as a possibility. Good luck!

[@ThisIsMyYoutubeName1]

@@AncestryAimee I think you just helped me remember something significant. On his military draft, for his physical description it states he is missing an eye. I questioned my grandmother and she told me she wasn’t sure, but she remembered he would squint a lot, mainly his left eye. I spoke to my great uncle and he confirmed he would wear a patch on his left eye. My grandma was born in 43, I can’t imagine her being able to recall a physical description if he passed before 1950, my grandma was only 7, I’m sure she would have been a lot older to remember. She says he passed before she got married, she married at 14 years old. I recall watching a video on how woman would claim widowed instead of admitting that they divorced or other situations. I cannot believe I never put this together.

[@nathankondo7246]

I even just search the keywords rites, funeral, death, and died to try and find death notices or obituaries. The search AI is not only perfect and will miss names!

[@AncestryAimee]

Yes!

[@ceciliahunt513]

Please for the love of everything holy, I need help. I've done deep dives into everything I could find. Yet, I'm unable to find information on my great-grandfather and my great uncles or aunt. There are a few people on both sides I just can't find them. Can you help? Thank you. Cecilia Hunt

[@AncestryAimee]

Sure! Sign up for coaching at www.patreon.com/aimeecross under membership or reach out to me through my website ancestryconsultingbyaimee.com if you want me to take on a private project (15 hours). We can figure it out!

[@ceciliahunt513]

@@AncestryAimee sorry, I don't have mo ey for that thanks though

[@mikeburke8656]

Capital S - Z

[@AncestryAimee]

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