{"id":1189,"date":"2016-10-20T19:14:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2016-10-20T19:14:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T02:14:56","slug":"plodding-along-the-genealogy-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Plodding Along the Genealogy Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/102116_0214_PloddingAlo1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>Genealogical research goes in fits and spurts. Some weeks I make good genealogical discoveries. Other weeks I work quietly on many small topics. During those times, the work moves ahead a little here and there, but nothing warrants a big announcement.\n<\/p>\n<p>Although this week shaped up as more like the latter, I made progress nonetheless:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The database <em>Newspapers.com<\/em> continues to provide information on my extended Sherman family. I am gleaning a tremendous amount of information on our Glover cousins who lived in Moultrie County, Illinois.\n<\/li>\n<li>I had an article accepted for publication in the next issue of <em>The Colorado Genealogist. <\/em>In this article I tell the story of how a Colorado cousin and I discovered each other through DNA testing.\n<\/li>\n<li>On Saturday I will attend a seminar sponsored by the Colorado chapter of Palatines to America. Dr. Marianne S. Wokeck will speak on various aspects of German emigration to the United States.\n<\/li>\n<li>I read a book about another genealogist&#8217;s journey, <em>The Stranger in My Genes<\/em> by William Griffeth. He relates how DNA testing unexpectedly changed his life.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>None of these things stands out on its own. Yet each advances my genealogical goals in some way. I moved ahead in my research, shared information by publishing, and made plans to further my genealogical education. Not a bad week&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogical research goes in fits and spurts. Some weeks I make good genealogical discoveries. Other weeks I work quietly on many small topics. During those times, the work moves ahead a little here and there, but nothing warrants a big announcement. Although this week shaped up as more like the latter, I made progress nonetheless: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}