While there are numerous places online to find stories about current celebrities, digging up information about people from earlier parts of history is a bit more of a challenge. Luckily, there are many ways to learn more about these past celebrities, including old newspaper archives. The trick in doing research of this kind is to sort out the wheat from the chaff as there are many different sides to any particular story.
When looking at old newspaper stories, it becomes immediately apparent that newspapers of the past would often give far more details about a story than you find in their modern-day equivalents. This makes these old stories much more interesting in many cases, as the writers tended to fill in more of the background story than is done commonly now.
I think these little vignettes of history add some very interesting color in the history of the families involved, but I also know quite well that many who research their ancestral roots would just as soon not have these stories broadcast. So, in many cases, they are the genealogy 'outtakes' when it comes to family research.
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