Newspapers: Early Social Media
We live in a world of instant Social Media these days however Social Media is not really a new concept. While now we can post instantly our thoughts and photos our Ancestors also had a similar thing with their local newspapers. Many Society pages were filled with the comings and goings of people, listings of parties and weddings, and other stories of torrid interest.
I've found that many of our ancestors that lived near or in town tended to be in the local newspaper often.
Today I am going to highlight my husband's great great grandmother Annie Lawless Wuerz Frasier. Annie lived in Alton, Illinois. She first married Robert Wuerz and had my husband's grandfather Conrad Wuerz. Robert passed away and Annie remarried to James Frasier.
Below are just a few samples of what I found in the Newspaper.
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CLIPPED FROM Alton Evening TelegraphAlton, Illinois 19 Jan 1940, Fri • Page 6 |
Back in the day there wasn't any medical privacy. Here we see that Mr. Frasier had been in the hsopital for 10 days.
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CLIPPED FROM Alton Evening TelegraphAlton, Illinois 27 Aug 1952, Wed • Page 13 |
The happy couple celebrating their 50th Wedding anniversary!
Finding family in the newspaper is my favorites thing to do. I love searching the pages on newspapers.com for tidbits of the life of our ancestors.
