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Hi everyone, I've been looking everywhere for where I can find articles from The American Genealogist and also from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
There are two articles from those respective magazines I would like to find, about the debate over the parents of Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham Massachusetts. There is a 1961 article in The American Genealogist, volume 37, by Clarence Almon Torrey titled "The English Ancestry of Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham, Massachusetts" that asserts Jonathan's parents were George Fairbanks and Mary Farrar of the village of Heptonstall, Yorkshire.
Then there's an article by Joseph and Ruth Fairbanks and and James Swan Landberg in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 116 from 2012, titled "Jonathan Fairbank of Dedham, Massachusetts, and his family in the West Riding of Yorkshire."
The gist of the 2012 article is that a clothier named George Fairbanks of the village of Sowerby a few miles from Heptonstall, a copy of whose will was sent to "his loving cousin Jonathan Fairbanks in New England" was actually the elder half brother of Jonathan of Dedham, and that he was described as a cousin because the two weren't very close. That doesn't make much sense to me since in his will this George (who had no wife or children) calls his siblings siblings and his cousins cousins, and also the writing on the back of the copy of the will that addresses "his loving cousin Jonathan" is different from the handwriting used in the will itself, implying George isn't the one who wrote it, so I don't know why the scribe would bother referring to the allegedly estranged half brother as a cousin rather than acknowledge him as a sibling.
Anyway, I'd like a chance to read these two articles and see what the competing evidence is, but I can't find the publications anywhere online.
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Hi
I think that both of these publications are available on PERSI (Periodical Source Index) which you can access if you've got a worldwide subscription on findmypast.
Best wishes
Julia
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Thank you Jay. How much would a subscription generally be?
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Hi Nick,
You could actually view the index using pay as you go credits rather than a subscription. However the problem is whether or not the articles you're looking for are available as images (some are) or just indexed.
Have you checked the websites for the publications to see if they do back issues at all?
Best wishes
Julia
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in case you want to take out a subscription after a free trial
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/Pay?isfreetrialrequest=true
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try a free search here and see how far you get before needing to pay
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/periodical-source-index
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I have a ww sub with FindMyPast and did a search.
I can find the same references that Nick posted but the link seems only to lead to advice on where the publications are held
(Therefore a sub, free or otherwise will not provide access the actual documents)
Allen County Public Library. Genealogy Dept
Login-in for the Library is required
( Unless I'm doing something wrong).
Looks like you have to join the library but I can't tell if the magazines are online or simply hard copies.
It may be worth calling
I assume it's this one?
648 Green St
New Haven, IN 46774
260.421.1345
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1961 Article:
Jonathan Fairbanks, Eng. anc., Dedham,MA
ACPL Call Number 973.005 Am354a
ACPL Holdings v.9- 1932-
Publisher Ruth Wilder Sherman
Publisher Address POB 398 Demorest GA 30535-0398 USA
Category Directories & social history
Subcategory Directories & almanacs
Collections from United States
2012 Article:
Jonathan Fairbank of Dedham, MA and his family in West Riding Yorkshire addition
ACPL Call Number 974 N42na
ACPL Holdings v.1- 1847-
Publisher New England Historic Genealogical Society
Publisher Address 101 Newbury Street Boston MA 02116-3087 USA
Notes indexes at 974 N42naa/nab/nac/nad/nae/naf
Category Directories & social history
Subcategory Directories & almanacs
Collections from United States
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Thanks for the help guys. I called the Allen County library and unfortunately they said they don't do interlibrary loans. They told me to check out, I think they said the OCLC or something, for more help. These websites that were suggested in the thread, could I read the articles there? Sorry, I just have a hard time figuring these sites out and I don't want to sign up for something and it just directs me to more places I might find the articles. I could try out the free trial though and see.
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I'm going to the British Library, I'll check to see if they have anything.
They have an index for volumes 9-41 of the American Genealogist and a catalogue entry for The New England Historical and Genealogical Register :-\
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Nick
The British Library only have the American Genealogist from vol 48 1972, nothing earlier.
Good news though, they have the New England Historical & Genealogical Register vol 116 from 2012 at St Pancras not in storage off-site at Boston Spa
so I've taken photos of all the pages and will upload them to my cloud over the weekend and send you the link as there are too many pages to email
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Thank you so much Dawnsh :) I'd really appreciate that.