RESEARCHING FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS
12/18/05
WRITTEN BY :TINA EASLEY
IF YOU HAVE NOTICED ON THE SITE . I DO ALLOT OF RESEARCH FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS . . THERE IS ABUNDANCE OF HISTORY TO BE LEARNED FROM THE OLD PAPERS .
THE OLD PAPERS WERE REALLY GOOD ABOUT TELLING A LITTLE ABOUT THE PERSON MENTIONED IN THE PAPER FOR EXAMPLE
GRUNDY GRAY AND FAMILY THIS LITTLE PIECE OF CLIPPING TELLS SO MUCH . IT TELLS WHERE THE FAMILY WAS LIVING ILLINOIS AND THE YEAR (NOTICE IN BETWEEN CENSUS YEARS ) WHERE THEY MOVED TO . IF YOU ONLY HAD THE CENSUS TO GO BY IT WOULD BE LIKE THEY VANISHED . AND WOULD MAKE FOR SOME REALLY HARD RESEARCHING .
I KNOW WHERE NOT ALL THIS LUCKY TO FIND SOMETHING THIS IMPORTANT WHEN RESEACHING SO THAT IS WHY I TRY TO POST INFORMATION THAT SOMETIMES HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GREENE COUNTY , BUT WITHIN THE STATE OR SURROUNDING AREAS . SO I HOPE ALL THE OLD CLIPPINGS WILL HELP SOMEONE .
I HAVE POSTED INFORMATION ABOUT A MAN BEING KILLED ( ONE IN MIND ) A FELLOW WAS KILLED AT MARMADUKE IN THE EARLY 1900'S IN A LOGGING ACCIDENT .
I WAS CONTACTED BY THE GREAT -GRANDAUGHTER . SHE TOLD ME THE STORY THAT WAS PASSED DOWN BY HER GRANDMOTHER OF HOW HE HAD LEFT HER GREAT-GRANDMOTHER AND FAMILY LOOKING FOR WORK AND HAD NOT HEARD FROM HIM SINCE . THE FAMILY HAD BELEIVED HE DESERTED THEM . UNTIL I POSTED THE SMALL ONE SENTENCE CLIPPING TELLING HIS NAME AND HOW HE WAS KILLED AND WERE THE ACCIDENT OCCURED AND THE DATE.
SO SOMETIMES DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR RESEARCH TRY OTHER SOURCES .
TINA EASLEY