{"id":725,"date":"2010-11-14T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/?p=725"},"modified":"2010-11-14T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T20:52:10","slug":"deaths-from-the-roanoke-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/deaths-from-the-roanoke-beacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaths from the Roanoke Beacon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newspaper indexing is one of my favorite pasttimes. \u00c2\u00a0For the past several years I’ve been working through older issues of the Roanoke Beacon paper teasing out information about Washington County residents.<\/p>\n

My first database is here<\/a> and while\u00c2\u00a0searchable, I’ve never been completely happy with it. \u00c2\u00a0So, earlier in the year I started to redesign how I record information and have created a new database. \u00c2\u00a0Not only does it work for extracts from the Roanoke Beacon, but I can use it for items reported in newspapers from many places. \u00c2\u00a0 I’ve named the new site, NC People in the News<\/a> and am donating the material to the NCGenWeb Project.<\/p>\n

This is the first time I’ve shared the link, so please understand that it is not quite finished yet. \u00c2\u00a0However, it’s flexible, and one thing I can do is tease out Washington county deaths I’ve added that appeared in the Roanoke Beacon, organized by Last Name<\/strong> of the individual. \u00c2\u00a0 I am in transition of moving content from the old site to this one and it may take awhile. \u00c2\u00a0This is definitely an ongoing project.<\/p>\n

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screenshot from NC People in the Papers database<\/p><\/div>\n

To see the list click here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0I hope this makes looking for your ancestors a less complicated task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newspaper indexing is one of my favorite pasttimes. \u00c2\u00a0For the past several years I’ve been working through older issues of the Roanoke Beacon paper teasing out information about Washington County Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}