Are you fortunate enough to to have newspaper clippings in your files? Both of my grandmothers had clippings in their albums. Most of these clippings were not labeled. Thanks to the newspaper collection of the Kansas State Historical Society, I was able to locate these clippings and document the newspaper and the date. When it …
Category: Newspapers
Kansas Newspapers
When Kansas was not yet 15 years old, the attendees of the 1875 Kansas Editors' and Publishers' Convention formed the Kansas State Historical Society "for the purpose of saving the present and past records" of Kansas history. One of the first goals of this society was to collect and preserve the NEWSPAPERS of the state. …
Family Tales
Do you use newspapers for your research? Have you ever sat in front of a microfilm reader and 'read' an older newspaper issue after issue? Since I live about 75 miles from the Kansas State Historical Society, I've had access to the states wonderful collection of newspapers. Thus, I have sat in front of a …
Digging Deeper
Have you ever seen an obituary clipping without a source? I know I have quite a few clippings that my grandmothers saved from local papers. Most of those clippings do not have anything on them to identify the source. Recently, I encountered a similar situation when working Ancestry hints for Emma Ralston Bockes. Someone had …
Gentle Reminder
Do you ever see an image or a hint that reminds you to look in that source for small bits of information about family members? I had that "Oh, yeah, I should look at that source." feeling when I was working hints for Lucius J. Hammond, my 2nd great granduncle. The hint that caused my …
Nemaha County Newspapers
When doing your genealogy research, do you ever encounter a source in a different place? That's what happened to me recently with The Courier Tribune, a Nemaha County, Kansas newspaper. The Seneca Free Library had their newspaper collection digitized by Advantage Archives. The library home page contains a link to this collection of digitized newspapers. …
The Dash
Do you try to find details about an ancestor's life for the time between their birth and their death, i.e. the dash? Census records help fill in that 'dash' since they put a person in a specific place at a specific time. However, I've found that gossipy newspapers also help fill in that 'dash'. The …
Alfalfa Mill
I recently posted a photo from my grandmother's collection of an Alfalfa Mill to the Facebook group, Growing Up in Dodge City. Since my grandparents lived in Dodge City their entire lives, I just assumed that the caption was correct. However, comments on the post questioned whether there was an alfalfa mill in Dodge City. …
Fabulous Find
Do you use Ancestry.com in your genealogy research? If so, have you checked out one of their newest sources of shaky leaf hints: Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current? Randy Searver's instructions on how to access just the hints from this one source in his Using the 'Mining Ancestry.com Hints from a Specific Collection' Tool makes it easy to pull these hints. …
Pauline E. Briles
Emporia Gazette Wednesday, July 18, 1984 page 2 column 4-5 Film E1506 KS State Historical Society Pauline E. Briles Funeral services for Mrs. E. O. Briles, who died Tuesday at her apartment in Horizon Plaza, will be held in the chapel of Roberts- Blue-Barnett Funeral Home. Ser- vices will be Friday at 10:30 A.M. conducted …