Charlene Doris Dupper – Miss Spokane 1971

 

When you find an item in a newspaper that has a picture of the person, make sure to grab the whole item not just the picture or not just the story.

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Above we see that Charlene Doris Dupper has been named “Miss Spokane 1971”, and we see some biographical information about her and her family.

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age: 21

born: 1950 in Spokane

father: Oscar E Dupper

address: W 446 Eighteenth

grad of Whitworth College BA and MA

toured Europe

Girls Federation president

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We clip the item and put them on a Family Tree so others can get the information.

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Tree Created on Ancestry.com to hold newspaper item:

Charlene Doris Dupper  –  Miss Spokane 1971 – Family Tree

Link to the Ancesty.com tree:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/90463356/family

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We clip her portrait off of the news item and put it on tree:

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Because we have dates, places and names we are able to create a tree that gives us many hints.

We find her father in a City Directory which has her mother’s name.

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We are able to find her in a high school year book which has more pictures of her.

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After we have picked up many records, we look for family trees that have her on their branches.

We notify the tree owners about the newspaper item and about the tree we created. These family trees give us new information such as full death dates so we are able to use those dates to find obits; like Maggie Werner Dupper.

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So you see we are able to create a well documented tree from a small item in the newspaper.

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We were also able to contact five (5) different trees.

Callahan/Senftner Tree – owner:  CallErick

McGrath family tree – owner:  Amcgrath0325

Petersen – Suessmuth in 2015 – owner: longtimer48

Silbaugh Family Tree – owner:  Jolene Silbaugh

Smiley_Hamm and Wenning_Weber v2 – owner:  lizsmiley

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Link to newspaper item:

Spokane, Washington – Spokane Daily Chronicle – Dec 14, 1971 – Tuesday

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AaJYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mPgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4068%2C4114812

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Link to Obit:

“United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012,”

Family Search :   —   https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSS-XZS3

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I hope this post has given you some information and some hints about creating family trees.

Thank You

Jose A. Munoz, M.Ed

Blog: https://newspaperproject2012.wordpress.com/