- Date
- 1979-01
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communitymigrationcommunicationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 1979 issue welcomed the Mooney and Petrak families as new Beaver Island residents.
Evidence and limits
These are newspaper welcome notices, not census, deed, lease, or employment records.
Sources
- Welcomes LaDonis and Mrs. Mooney and their five children from Arizona, noting former island residence and family connections, and Curt and Mrs. Petrak and their three children from Farmington, Michigan. It is a newspaper welcome notice, not a census, deed, lease, or employment record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1979-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the new-family notices.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1979-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Mooney and Petrak families welcomed as new Beaver Island residents, 1979”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-mooney-petrak-new-families-1979/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1979, “New Families on Beaver Island.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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