Thanks, Ray. I joined genealogybank.com this year and found valuable information about my family from newspaper obituaries, death records and police and court records. Most of my success came from The Worcester Spy newspaper. Many Irish came to Worcester, Mass. to work in the textile mills, building canals. Meg Kenagy Portland, Oregon On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:00 AM, irl-kerry-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Been kinda quiet, folks. Check out GenealogyBank.com > (Ray Marshall) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:50:11 -0500 (CDT) > From: "Ray Marshall" <ray.marshall@gmail.com> > Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Been kinda quiet, folks. Check out > GenealogyBank.com > To: <IRL-Kerry@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <CF465D1765D14312BE241D110725515E@lydiad4cd4461f> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > So I thought I would share with you a tip that I came across recently. > www.GenealogyBank.com Genealogy Bank somehow has digitized thousands of > newspapers, obituaries, birth records, marriage and engagement records and > passenger lists. > > I've been particuarly involved in going through the Duluth (Minnesota) News > Tribune where I was born and where my Irish and Polish ancestors came in the > 19th century. > > Not all newspapers are complete. [The Duluth News Tribune seems to be just > between 1880-1925 or so but those are great years for me when my ggf's > brother owned a saloon]. > > But what is great about Genealogy Bank is that you can do a lot of trial > searches and you can see partial information on the results. So you can get > an idea of the possibility of you finding valuable genealogical or > historical information. Then you can sign up for $20 per month (or $50 per > year) and then go to it. You can copy to your printer, or make pdf files. > I did the later because I found hundreds of items, most of them very small > tidbits. > > Like today, most of us don't get our names in the newspaper very often. > I've found that there are several ways that would indicate a likelihood that > you will find interesting/valuable information. > > 1. If your relative was a prominent public official. > 2. If he owned a business and sued or got sued a lot. Newspapers always > have court reporters. > 3. If he drank a lot and ended up in court regularly for fighting. > 4. If he was a petty criminal. > 5. If he got murdered. > > Those aren't hypothetical instances, folks. They come from my Polish > family. Can't find much on my Irish side other than a lot of visits in the > "personals" section of the paper. Unfortunately, GenealogyBank hasn't > digitized any newspapers from the Negaunee/Marquette region of the Upper > Peninsula of Michigan. > > You do have a problem though if your relatives were named John Smith or > > And, of course, like with much of genealogy research, you often come across > items that maybe don't relate to your family, but they are really delightful > tidbits, such as this advertisement that was attached to an article on one > of my relatives. > > ========================================= > > Locate the Joints [1895 newspaper advertisement] > > > > The main purpose in carving fowl and raiding opium joints is the same, first > locate the joints. The chief purpose in having your eyes properly fitted > with glasses is to find the right place to have it done. > > > > Our ambition to find a faultless eye glass guard has been realized and is > appreciated. With this guard you have no more trouble with your eye glasses > falling off in your soup, etc. We also have a modern and perfect fitting > spec frame, which when fitted with lenses properly fitted by F.D. Day & Cos. > competent optician, 315 West Superior Street, will give proper satisfaction. > > =============================================== > > Now get to work people! We need more action on the Kerry List. > > > Ray Marshall > Grumpy List Administrator > Minneapolis, where we're having a very nice summer. > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRL-KERRY list administrator, send an email to > IRL-KERRY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRL-KERRY mailing list, send an email to IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRL-KERRY Digest, Vol 8, Issue 111 > *****************************************

Meg, List, Meg I too rely on the "Worcester Spy" but you should check the "Springfield Republican", Springfield covers way more years and I have caught a few tidbits about Worcester folks in that paper. I have gotten great stories from my elderly parents when I ask about businesses and factories in Worcester that have disappeared. My soon to be 87 year old Mom likes me to read her the grocery ads from the store my grandmother frequented. She then calculates what the prices would be today! So it's not all genealogy for me! Helen -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] IRL-KERRY Digest, Vol 8, Issue 111 Thanks, Ray. I joined genealogybank.com this year and found valuable information about my family from newspaper obituaries, death records and police and court records. Most of my success came from The Worcester Spy newspaper. Many Irish came to Worcester, Mass. to work in the textile mills, building canals. Meg Kenagy Portland, Oregon > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > =============================================== > > Now get to work people! We need more action on the Kerry List. > > > Ray Marshall > Grumpy List Administrator > Minneapolis, where we're having a very nice summer. > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRL-KERRY list administrator, send an email to > IRL-KERRY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRL-KERRY mailing list, send an email to IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. > > > End of IRL-KERRY Digest, Vol 8, Issue 111 > ***************************************** _______________ --------------- Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message