{"id":5556,"date":"2019-07-27T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geneosity.com\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2019-07-27T22:49:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T03:49:15","slug":"using-newspapers-to-tell-family-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geneosity.com\/using-newspapers-to-tell-family-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Newspapers to Tell a Family Story – The History of a Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"
The story of Marine – Jesse Melton Browne Jr. and tips on finding his history using newspapers!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
I absolutely love it when things just come together and I knew there was a reason.<\/p>\n
It seems that I always find something in common with my subjects and this one lived close to my home town at one point in his life.<\/p>\n
I love all the mysteries and the thought that there was a reason I found this story!<\/p>\n
There are many sources for newspapers – think outside the box \n<\/strong><\/p>\n
While on a search to help a new fellow Texas genealogy friend that I made today I needed more than I was finding on my normal research sights. So today’s tip is, if you can\u2019t find it go to Google and go to the town where the family lived and search for newspaper archives.<\/p>\n
Type in only the surname for the search so you can read about any family member. Sometimes you get really lucky like I did today!<\/p>\n
Thursday August the 9th, 1951 – Breckenridge American Newspaper \n<\/strong><\/p>\n
In this clip we learn that Melton was home visiting and addressed as Captain, and that he was leaving for Pensicola, Florida. There is a lot of other information that will be a great addition to the tree about other family members.<\/p>\n
The Breckenridge American – July 195<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Today I found a heart-tug story while doing some research. From Breckenridge, Texas a Marine is home from the Korean War dated Friday, July 6th, 1951. Captain Jesse Melton Browne of the Marine Air Corps had been gone for six months and was an air observation squadron pilot.<\/p>\n
He had a record of being one of the only two in his group that had gone without losing his plane or being wounded. He had flown 175 mission in Korea.<\/p>\n
Building a time line – You will not find them in order \n<\/strong><\/p>\n