{"id":132412,"date":"2010-01-03T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T21:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2010-01-03T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T21:26:51","slug":"searching-the-wilkes-barre-%e2%80%9csunday-independent%e2%80%9d-1913-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/132412","title":{"rendered":"Searching the Wilkes-Barre \u201cSunday Independent\u201d 1913-1927"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Mooney wrote<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/features\/Here_rsquo_s_to_a_new_year__of_lives_past_Tom_Mooney_Out_on_a_limb_01-03-2010.html\"> a good column<\/a> for the Times Leader today. It included suggestions on how to go about locating online data for Northeastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>One important bit of information I got from the article is that <em>The Sunday Independent<\/em>, published in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1906 through 1993, is digitized for the years 1913-1927 and is accessible online at free of charge. The papers may be found and searched at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesspadr.org\/cdm4\/browse.php?CISOROOT=\/wbsunind\">http:\/\/www.accesspadr.org\/cdm4\/browse.php?CISOROOT=\/wbsunind<\/a>. It looks to me like 682 complete papers have been digitized.<\/p>\n<p>I did a search for the surname, Canfield, and got 16 hits. The following illustration shows the first four of those hits. Click on the image to see all 16 &#8211; at the site itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesspadr.org\/cdm4\/results.php?CISOOP1=any&#038;CISOBOX1=Canfield&#038;CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&#038;CISOROOT=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pa-papers.jpg\" alt=\"Canfields in The Sunday Independent\" title=\"Canfields in The Sunday Independent\" width=\"590\" height=\"589\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clicking on the first example, I got the following obituary (screen shot from within the page).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesspadr.org\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/slpgenealog&#038;CISOPTR=11250&#038;DMSCALE=50&#038;DMWIDTH=600&#038;DMHEIGHT=600&#038;DMX=0&#038;DMY=252&#038;DMMODE=viewer&#038;DMTEXT=%20Canfield&#038;REC=1&#038;DMTHUMB=1&#038;DMROTATE=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theodorecanfield-obit.jpg\" alt=\"Theodore Canfield obituary\" title=\"Theodore Canfield obituary\" width=\"350\" height=\"164\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7690\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesspadr.org\/cdm4\/browse.php?CISOROOT=\/wbsunind\">Go search on the papers for your ancestors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Mooney wrote a good column for the Times Leader today. It included suggestions on how to go about locating online data for Northeastern Pennsylvania. One important bit of information I got from the article is that The Sunday Independent, published in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1906 through 1993, is digitized for the years 1913-1927 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}