Ponceby Online Media and Newspaper Pass, 1935-1965

Run date: 23 April 2026.

Scope: free/public online newspapers, yearbooks, cemetery indexes, directories, historical newspaper portals, and contextual media for Ponceby-related names from 1935-1965. People-search/current-address aggregators were ignored.

Sources Created

Source Artifact Why it matters
source-bgsu-key-yearbook-pages-for-gordon-ponceby-1948 Extracted pages from The Key 1948 Names Gordon Ponceby/G. Ponceby in sophomore and Student Christian Fellowship group captions.
source-bgsu-key-yearbook-pages-for-gordon-ponceby-1949 Extracted pages from The Key 1949 Names Gordon Ponceby in Phi Alpha Chi and Pi Theta, including Pi Theta treasurer for 1948-1949.
source-bgsu-key-yearbook-pages-for-gordon-f-ponceby-1950 Extracted pages from The Key 1950 Lists PONCEBY, GORDON F., Cleveland, Ohio, plus Delta Upsilon and Phi Alpha Chi context.
source-risingsun-unique-weekly-marriage-license-notice-for-gordon-f-ponceby-and-shirley-armstrong-1948 Risingsun Unique Weekly, 29 April 1948, page 2 Wood County marriage-license notice for Gordon F. Ponceby and Shirley Armstrong.
source-lakewood-park-cemetery-burial-index-entry-for-dorothy-ponceby-1956 Lakewood Park Cemetery burial index Corroborates Dorothy Ponceby's 20 February 1956 death date and adds 23 February 1956 burial at Lakewood Park Cemetery.

No person records were updated from these proposed sources.

Search Log

Date Venue Query / range Result Access / action
23 Apr 2026 BGSU ScholarWorks Key Yearbooks Ponceby, Pownceby, Pounceby, Poncely, Gordon/Shirley/Gayle targets in 1948-1951 Key PDFs Gordon hits in 1948, 1949, 1950; no Ponceby hit in 1951 Public PDFs downloaded; extracted page packets ingested as proposed photograph sources.
23 Apr 2026 BGSU BG News Index q=Ponceby, q=Pownceby, q=Pounceby, q=Poncely No results using the all-fields search route Logged negative; no source created.
23 Apr 2026 BGSU BG News Index keywords=Ponceby and variants Returned broad/noisy index pages unrelated to exact Ponceby hits Treated as unreliable for exact-name evidence; no source created.
23 Apr 2026 WCDPL / Advantage Preservation Ponceby, 1 Jan 1935-31 Dec 1965 One result: Risingsun Unique Weekly, 29 Apr 1948, page 2 Public page PDF downloaded and ingested as proposed newspaper notice.
23 Apr 2026 WCDPL / Advantage Preservation Shirley Armstrong, 1 Jan 1935-31 Dec 1965 Same Risingsun Unique Weekly marriage-license notice Duplicate of ingested source; no second source created.
23 Apr 2026 WCDPL / Advantage Preservation Pownceby, Pounceby, Poncely, Gordon Ponceby, Shirley Ponceby, Donald Ponceby, Jane Ponceby, Dorothy Ponceby, Helen Ponceby, Gayle Ponceby, Gail Ponceby, 1935-1965 No additional results Logged negative.
23 Apr 2026 Public web search Donald E./Edwin Ponceby with Jane, Dorothy, Helen, Cleveland, Toledo, Coshocton Surfaced already-ingested CPL 1940 Cleveland directory hit and unrelated/people-search material; no new Jane/Helen relationship evidence Logged negative; ignored current-address aggregators.
23 Apr 2026 Public web search / Interment.net Dorothy D. Ponceby, Dorothy Ponceby obituary Cleveland Lakewood Park Cemetery index lists Dorothy Ponceby, d. 20 Feb 1956, buried 23 Feb 1956 Public page snapshot ingested as proposed online index and linked to the existing Dorothy lead/event.
23 Apr 2026 Public web search Gordon Francis/F. Ponceby with Detroit, Ambassador Bridge, border crossing, 1942 No public image or index result for the reported 3 Jan 1942 admission Existing HIR-20260423-001 remains open.
23 Apr 2026 Alberta public sources Marjorie Eleanor Ponceby, Donald E. Ponceby, Catherine Mackie/Horne, Edmonton/Edson Public PAA death-index PDF for Marjorie already represented in repo; no new public Donald/Catherine newspaper source Existing Alberta registration and Edmonton Journal blockers remain open.
23 Apr 2026 Edmonton Public Library / ProQuest Edmonton Journal historical archive, 1903-2010 EPL confirms the archive exists and supports full-page/article image download, but access requires the library/ProQuest login path Existing HIR-20260423-003 updated.
23 Apr 2026 Provincial Archives of Alberta newspapers Edmonton and Edson holdings PAA lists Edmonton Journal holdings and Edson papers, but records are microfilm/reading-room holdings rather than downloadable indexed hits Existing Alberta newspaper/registration blockers remain open.
23 Apr 2026 Peel's Prairie Provinces / web search Ponceby variants No public Ponceby hit found Logged negative.
23 Apr 2026 Newspapers.com / OldNews / GenealogyBank public web search Ponceby variants with Daily Sentinel-Tribune, Port Huron Times-Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Edmonton Journal, Toledo Blade No concrete access-blocked clipping candidate surfaced beyond already-known blocked Alberta/Ohio certificate and journal tasks No new HIR item added.
23 Apr 2026 Public Armstrong family page Shirley Armstrong/Ponceby and 1935-1965 photo context Existing source-online-summary-paul-lola-armstrong-family-page-2026 already preserves the public page; it contains mixed-date family photographs and summaries Not re-ingested; keep as low-confidence family-page context only.

Queue Impact

  • Gordon's BGSU context is now source-backed rather than merely an OCR/web-search clue.
  • The 29 April 1948 Risingsun notice independently supports the public marriage-license notice trail, but the Wood County probate marriage record remains the stronger marriage-event source.
  • Dorothy Ponceby now has a second public index source and a burial clue at Lakewood Park Cemetery, but still lacks a relationship-bearing certificate, obituary, probate, or marriage source.
  • The Gordon 1942 Detroit/Ambassador Bridge admission record remains the highest-value blocked migration target.
  • Alberta registration/newspaper work still requires ordered records, a library card/sign-in, staff assistance, or reading-room microfilm access.