How do you verify if a newspaper story about an ancestor is accurate?
I’ve recently come across a few newspaper articles in the archive that mention one of my ancestors — and while the stories are fascinating, I’m not sure how much of them I can take at face value. As many of us know, historical newspapers could be inconsistent: some were sensational, others copied stories from earlier papers, and details sometimes changed from issue to issue.
I’d love to hear examples — either cases where a dramatic newspaper story turned out to be true or where the archive helped you uncover a myth or misunderstanding passed down in the family.
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