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Researching Your Family Tree Online - Moving Past Beginner Basics

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Take your search beyond births, marriages, deaths and immigration records to look for clues in unexpected places. Obituary notices, for example, are often a gold mine on 20th century families. The historical newspaper collection on Ancestry.com doesn't appear to yield an obituary notice for Lee Helene Jewel, but a woman of that name is listed as the secretary for the Riverside Synagogue Sisterhood in New York City in the text of an obituary for one of its members - Martha Cane, 19 Sep 1948

And there are also obituary notices for her mother, brother and sister which help confirm the connections between the Jewel and Cane families we previously found in the U.S. Census:

Fanny Cane, widow of the late Solomon and devoted mother of Nathan, Carrie, Bessie Hyatt and Lee Helene Jewel. Funeral from her late residence, 200 West 111th St... - 4 June 1928

Carrie Cane, beloved sister of Nathan and Lee Helene Jewel... - 23 Nov 1953

Nathan Cane, beloved brother of Lee Helene Jewel; devoted uncle of Marvin Krehbiel, James and Jerry Jewel... - 27 Mar 1956

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