Wow, this should come with a Rabbit Hole Warning (RHW... that should be a Thing!)
Off I went down into the archives looking for my 2x great grandfather's warrant. I found one, Nebraska 1855. Was that MY Harger? More digging to do... Thank you!
What a wonderful accidental find. I’ve had a few of those also in my review of historic newspapers. Adjacent articles with familiar names that I might have missed had I not just taken a moment to glance at the whole newspaper page.
Good point! Looking at the whole newspaper page is something I had to learn. And then, one step further, browse through the neighborhood section of surrounding issues of that same paper (if this is from a paper with a lively neighborhood section.) Sometimes there will be an article that doesn’t mention your relative by name but mentions others, and you can infer that your relative is part of the story. Often the paper spells your relative’s name incorrectly or the OCR software misunderstands it.
Wow, this should come with a Rabbit Hole Warning (RHW... that should be a Thing!)
Off I went down into the archives looking for my 2x great grandfather's warrant. I found one, Nebraska 1855. Was that MY Harger? More digging to do... Thank you!
What a wonderful accidental find. I’ve had a few of those also in my review of historic newspapers. Adjacent articles with familiar names that I might have missed had I not just taken a moment to glance at the whole newspaper page.
Good point! Looking at the whole newspaper page is something I had to learn. And then, one step further, browse through the neighborhood section of surrounding issues of that same paper (if this is from a paper with a lively neighborhood section.) Sometimes there will be an article that doesn’t mention your relative by name but mentions others, and you can infer that your relative is part of the story. Often the paper spells your relative’s name incorrectly or the OCR software misunderstands it.