"Your family made the news"

[Top-of-the-hill]

   I received an email this morning from Findmypast, as I expect many of us did, headed "Extra! Extra! your family made the news".
   Unfortunately my family didn't! They lived in the depths of the country, and apart from a couple of 2nd cousins taking part in agricultural shows (and not winning!) and 2 early 20th century funeral reports, I have found hardly anything. By the 1930s there are a few references to ladies serving tea at the Mothers' Union jumble sale, but that is hardly making the news.
   I think we were, and still are, people who kept/keep a low profile.
  I would say that I use the newspapers on FindMyPast all the time for local history!

[bibliotaphist]

"A gentleman's name should appear in the newspaper only three times: when he's born, when he marries, and when he dies."

Thankfully I don't seem to be descended from any gentlemen.

[Stanwix England]

Some of mine made the news more often than they ought to have done!

[BumbleB]

Yes, I've got one, although not immediate - my father's cousin, who was investigated by MI5 and an MP

[coombs]

I have one ancestor who was always in trouble for violence and poaching.

And one direct ancestor was sent to Australia in 1791, and two ancestor siblings were also sent to Australia as convicts. I have found many obituaries and the like for my ancestors, or them being the victims of crimes, or witnesses to crimes.

[Erato]

I have well over 1000 newspaper articles.  Of course, a lot of them pertain to very distant relatives, a lot are obituaries, and a lot are comical in their triviality ["Old Settlers Club  ...  Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ennis entertained the audience with a song"].

[Blue70]

I have an ancestor who shot his mother but FindMyPast doesn't know he's one of mine shhhhh 


C

[coombs]

I am much more invested in the direct lines and use siblings etc to get back further with direct lines, and this applies to newspaper records as well. Such as an ancestors brothers obituary can give some info on the direct line I did not know about.

[Treetotal]

One of my Great Uncles, George, was mentioned in the newspaper for earning a Military Medal during WW1 and Edward was my Grandfather.
Carol