How can i get birth announcements from a newspaper in another state.?

Question

i am doing my family tree and figured i would get started by viewing my grandmothers birth announcement in a newspaper. she lived in loudon TN in either alcoa, greenback or something like that. did they put announcemnets in papers in 1933? and how could i retrieve it froma newspaper from TN i live in alabama?

Answer 1

Hi Renae,

If you mean Sallie/Sally/Solly Kirby/Kerby who married Urcel Covington, she was probably born in Servier or Blount Counties.

By dint of using some of the hints on my web page about Googling your ancestors and trying different combinations in the census search engines, I found your Sally. She was a Covington, but hiding out under "Sallie" in 1930, in a different county. The index I use does not have soundex on first names, just surnames. That is why I could not find her in the first two hours I spent looking. She was "Solly Kerby" in 1920, and not in Loudon County. She wasn't born soon enough to be on the 1910.

Here is what I found. The data without links is from my subscription to census images. The data with the links is cut from those web pages. You can contact the people behind those pages, maybe. Some sites have Mail links, some don't. The RWWC ones all do.

If you can't follow what I did, write. In your message, cut and paste the confusing part to remind me, then type your question. I will probably not remember all of this for more than a couple of hours; less, if I have beer for lunch.

Please go to
http://www.tedpack.org

then to the genealogy pages. Read the one about googling your ancestors, the one about the 1880 census, and the one in "Geezer Skills" about deleting parts of a URL. It should make what I did clear, and how to write to the people.

Ted

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Picture you sent -
Sally Covington
12 Jan 1912 - 15 Jan 1941

http://www.covingtonhistory.co.uk/Generations/JOHN%20COVINGTON%20(12268),%20born%20at%20South%20Carolina%20SC%201791Page10.html
Sally COVINGTON. Ref: 13159. Born: around 1910 at Tennessee TN. Father: Kirby, Parent Ref: 0. Mother: not known. 1st Mar:
around 1927 at Tennessee TN to Urcle 13115.

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/COVINGTON/1999-06/0930527727
Urcle Covingtonb: July 10, 1910 in Sevire county
,tennessee d: March 29, 1996 in Knoxville, Tennessee
..........+Aunice Taylor b: May 20, 1926 in Knoxville,
Tennessee 37914 d: May 14, 1992 in Knoxville, Tennessee 37914
......*2nd Wife of [2] Urcle Covington:
..........+Sally Kirby b: January 12, 1911 d: January
15, 1941
......*3rd Wife of [2] Urcle Covington:
..........+Lettie Ellison b: January 22, 1922 d: July 30,
1951


http://www.sevierlibrary.org/ahgp/blmar.htm
Blount County Marriages 1911-1930 Donated by Elmer Mize
Covington, Urcle, 21, to Kirby, Salley, 19, on 17 April 1926 by T.E. Hood


Year: 1930; Census Place: District 11, Knox, Tennessee; Roll: 2260; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 87; Image: 260.0.
Covington, William, head, rents $5/mo, 59, 24 at marriage, b. Tenn
----, Addie, wife, 69, 34 at marriage, b. Georgia
----, Earcle, son, 18, 15 at marriage, Tenn
----, Sallie, dau-in-law, 15 at marriage, Tenn
----, Hollis, son, 17, Tenn (As are the rest)
----, Florence, gr dau, 16
----, Mariam, gr-dau, 2


Year: 1920;Census Place: Civil District 13, Blount, Tennessee; Roll: T625_1729; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 29; Image: 1008.
Sherman Kerby 32 head (All b. Tennessee)
Margret Kerby 32 wife
Oscar Kerby 10 son
Solly Kerby 9 dau <<< Sally Kirby
Wade Kerby 7 son
Mira Kerby 5 dau
Viola Kerby 1/12th (that is, one month)


1910; Census Place: Civil District 10, Sevier, Tennessee; Roll: T624_1518; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 144; Image: 280.

James L Kirby 22 head
Marget Kirby 22 wife
Oscar Kirby 10/12 son
Ira Kirby 17 cousin

Whoops! - age is right, wife's age is right, son & wife's name right, but "James L" is NOT "Sherman". This might be him, might not.


This is him: Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 16, Sevier, Tennessee; Roll: T623 1596; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 141.

Geo Kirby 39
Mary Kirby UNKN
Liza Kirby 20
John Kirby 19
William W Kirby 16
Martha J Kirby 15
Sherman Kirby 12
Nancy Kirby 10
Birtha Kirby 7
Jessie L Kirby 3

(1890 was lost in a fire)


http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
George KIRBY Self M Male W 19 TN Farm Laborer NC TN
Mary KIRBY Wife M Female W 20 TN Keeping House TN TN
Elijah KIRBY Son S Male W 10M TN TN TN
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Source Information:
Census Place Wears Valley, Sevier, Tennessee
Family History Library Film 1255277
NA Film Number T9-1277
Page Number 384A


Now we're far back enough to try
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
Pay dirt!
ID: I00102
Name: George W. KIRBY 1
Sex: M
Birth: 1859 in Sevier County, Tennessee 1
Death: 28 AUG 1928 in Sevier County, Tennessee 1
Burial: 1928 Waldens Creek Missionary Baptist Cemetery 1
Note:
George 29, Mary 20, Elijah 10/12 (384)
1880 Sevier Co., Tn. Census
.......................................................................... .......................................................................... ................
A index of the 1900 Sevier County Census has George Kirby living
in District 16 on page 10b
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1920 Sevier County Census (Tennessee) District 16, Waldens Creek, 14,,,15 page 1B
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other kirby births in Sevier County, Tn
Kirby, Beecher D. 12 26 1911 M W Walden Creek Kirby, G.W. Waldens Creek Kirby, Barba A. Jones Cove Gibson, S.V. 7 763
Kirby, Sallie 1 12 1911 F W Sevier Co. Kirby, Sherman Sevier Co. Kirby, Margaret Blount Co. Rogers, J.P. 7 184
Kerby, Alma 9 26 1910 F W Waldens Creek Kerby, George Waldens Creek Kerby, Jessie Tuchaluchee, Tn Rogers, Susan 8 328
Kerley, Peryman 9 5 1909 M W Sevier Co. Kerley, George Sevier Co. Kerley, Jessie Tn..Gibson, S.V. 6 495

Father: John KERBY b: 1835 in North Carolina
Mother: Martha ??? b: ABT 1827 in Tennessee
Marriage 1 Mary HATCHER b: 1860 in Sevier County, Tennessee
Married: 26 AUG 1876 in Sevier County, Tennessee 1
Children
Jane KIRBY
Jessie L. KIRBY b: AFT 1876 in Sevier County, Tennessee
Walter W. KIRBY b: AFT 1876 in Sevier County, Tennessee
Elijah Major KIRBY b: 2 AUG 1877 in Sevier County, Tennessee
Laura Rebecca KIRBY b: 1878 in Sevier County, Tennessee
John KIRBY b: 29 JAN 1891 in Sevier County, Tennessee
Bertha Mae KIRBY b: 1892 in Sevier County, Tennessee
Sherman KIRBY b: AFT 1876 in Sevier County, Tennessee
Myrtle KIRBY b: 1904
Sources:
Title: Hendricks-Kirby.FTW
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: May 22, 2002

Answer 2

get online search for the newspaper u want to give add too .. and then simply contact the editor.. of that news paper

Answer 3

Go online and find out which newspapers are in those towns, and e-mail, phone, or write to them. Tell them what you are doing, and ask if they can help.