Heartland Genealogy

Emporia Gazette Wednesday, July 18, 1984 page 2 column 4-5 Film E1506 KS State Historical Society

About a month ago, I ran across another Thompson tree on Ancestry.com that had an article from the Belleville newspaper attached to Ulysses Grant Thompson . Curious as to what was in the newspaper, I decided to do a search for Grant Thompson in the Belleville, Kansas newspapers on Newspapers.com . Instead of backing up a step and doing a more focused search, I opened many of the articles in new tabs. Thus, I had a browser open with who knows how many tabs. I not only found an obituary for Ulysses Grant Thompson, but also for his wives. In addition, I found news items related  Grant Thompson's siblings and his children. This newspaper search took quite a few hours (days) to complete. However, the information contained in all of these articles was genealogy GOLD . I hit the JACKPOT!