{"id":116,"date":"2012-05-03T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norsky.net\/TerisBlog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2012-05-03T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:13:18","slug":"an-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"An Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MH900410154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" \/>I changed my tagline on this blog today. I chose the new one after I attended a seminar last weekend and heard an interesting twist on a familiar phrase. We all know that\u00a0the Declaration of Independence asserted our right to the <em>pursuit of Happiness<\/em>. The seminar speaker took that phrase and changed it to speak of genealogy as the <em>happiness of pursuit<\/em>. That really says it all for those of us who relentlessly seek information about our ancestors. So I adopted that thought as my new tagline.<\/p>\n<p>And I have had a happy discovery or two this week. I located a ship passage record for relatives from Finland, and it proved quite interesting. This group came over in 1908, and their record was very detailed&#8211;physical descriptions, names and addresses of kin in Finland, and information about relatives already in America.<\/p>\n<p>I still have a couple more ship passage records to locate for my Finns. Four\u00a0 Mattila siblings in all came over, some with spouses and some with children. I now have the passenger lists for Alex and Ida. I will be truly happy when I have found the records for the rest of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I changed my tagline on this blog today. I chose the new one after I attended a seminar last weekend and heard an interesting twist on a familiar phrase. We all know that\u00a0the Declaration of Independence asserted our right to the pursuit of Happiness. The seminar speaker took that phrase and changed it to speak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finland","category-genealogy","category-general-genealogy","category-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}