{"id":2161,"date":"2021-08-12T09:29:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2021-08-12T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:29:36","slug":"genealogy-databases-reveal-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2161","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Databases Reveal a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/Genealogical research has changed since the last century. More and more information continues to be available online. Nowadays I can fill my days doing research from home.\n<\/p>\n

For my recently discovered turn-of-the-last century ancestor, I have been amazed at the amount of information I could collect about his life in a short time without leaving the house or mailing a letter to the county. A few databases contain enough information for me to create a good profile of his life:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. FindAGrave.com. My ancestor’s cemetery marker has been photographed and posted here. Someone added biographical information and links to monuments for a parent and a child.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Ancestry.com. Here I found both state and federal census records that offer my ancestor’s place of residence and the composition of his household.\n<\/li>\n
  3. Newspapers.com. This site has a searchable collection of county newspapers from my ancestor’s lifetime. I learned a bit about his daily life from news items describing his travels, land transactions, and political activities. I also found his 1925 obituary.\n<\/li>\n
  4. Glorecords.blm.gov. The Bureau of Land Management’s general land office records give me access to my ancestor’s homestead file and tell me the location of some of the land he owned.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In days gone by, I would have needed to write numerous letters and visit repositories, courthouses, and cemeteries to gather this much data. It would have taken months.\n<\/p>\n

    Today, once this man’s identity was discovered through a DNA test (another technological advance in itself), I was able to use 21st<\/sup> century technology to compile a tremendous amount of information about him in just a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Genealogical research has changed since the last century. More and more information continues to be available online. Nowadays I can fill my days doing research from home. For my recently discovered turn-of-the-last century ancestor, I have been amazed at the amount of information I could collect about his life in a short time without leaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}