{"id":2403,"date":"2022-12-23T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T18:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2022-12-23T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T18:38:59","slug":"the-genealogy-stacks-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"The Genealogy Stacks Disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/122322_1838_TheGenealog1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>The stacks of work-in-progress and other paperwork to be filed have disappeared from the table in my office. It did not happen by magic. I spent December, as I do every year, cleaning it all up.\n<\/p>\n<p>It takes some time. I scrutinize each page, discard some, and file the rest in neat folders. I made new ones for all the Lawless and Ryan ancestors I discovered this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>This tidying leaves clean work surfaces available for me to mess up again in 2023. I have 8 inches or so of documents for my Reed line waiting for attention. My father&#8217;s cousin left behind notebooks full of Reed information, too.\n<\/p>\n<p>The first step in the Reed project will be to review these documents and add the information to my database. When I have accomplished this, I will begin some fresh research on this line, starting with my third great-grandparents, Thomas Reed (1783-1852) and Ann Kirkham (1782-1869).\n<\/p>\n<p>They were original settlers in Coles County, Illinois in 1829. They will be my focus next year.\n<\/p>\n<p>This will be my first attempt to do a research project on ancestors born in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century. This couple grew up during the early Federal period. Records I am accustomed to searching did not exist at that time, and I will need to practice some new research techniques. It promises to be an interesting challenge.\n<\/p>\n<p>The office is ready and waiting for me to begin in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stacks of work-in-progress and other paperwork to be filed have disappeared from the table in my office. It did not happen by magic. I spent December, as I do every year, cleaning it all up. It takes some time. I scrutinize each page, discard some, and file the rest in neat folders. I made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","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=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}