Partial Index To Events and Individuals In The
Shippensburg Area
Database Use Tips
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Newspapers & individuals do make mistakes - Always verify information. Just because it was copied from a newspaper does make it correct.
If the newspaper was incorrect and the individual copied it from the newspaper without checking, it gets handed down as gospel.
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Some individuals that I have personally know have written articles with errors and were published in the Shippensburg newspapers.
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Headings and comments are based on the articles that appeared in the paper - some terms and names from the past may not relate to present time
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Every effort has been made to spell items correctly - due to limited space per line please check article for complete information
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Check various spellings of last names Fogelsanger/Fogelsonger, Shope/Shoap/Shoop, and others. Newspapers used different spellings for same individual
