{"id":2699,"date":"2024-11-07T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2024-11-07T11:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:11:37","slug":"another-christmas-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"Another Christmas Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have completed my supplemental Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) application to recognize the Pennsylvania service of my ancestor Caleb Reed (1756-abt. 1835), I am ready to compile my annual Christmas genealogy project. Every year I write up something to distribute to the family.<\/p>\n<p>No one of my ancestors offered an obvious choice to write about this year. I had a fractured approach to my research and made no breakthroughs on any ancestor. I began in January with the Carters and soon became mired in East Tennessee records. This will take considerable time to unravel. <\/p>\n<p>When I attended a spring DAR workshop and attempted to gather Caleb Reed\u2019s information, I hit a brick wall with his wife\u2019s Carr family.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer I joined an Irish genealogy study group only to get stuck there, too.<\/p>\n<p>With no obvious ancestor to write about this year, I will work on a different sort of project. The American Revolution remains fresh in my mind with the Caleb Reed application so I will discuss the service of the Revolutionary War era ancestors I have proven to the DAR.<\/p>\n<p>These three (Gershom Hall, Robert Kirkham, Caleb Reed) would be of interest to relatives. I will write up service summaries for them with the intention of updating it some year in the future when I have proofs for additional ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Caleb Reed, I have high hopes. My local DAR Registrar signed off on the supplemental this week, and I mailed it off to the DAR headquarters the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Now it will take its place in the lengthy line for national approval, a process that is taking about two years.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I can work on finding enough information to submit another ancestor\u2019s name. This research has become more timely as America approaches its 250th birthday in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"153\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have completed my supplemental Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) application to recognize the Pennsylvania service of my ancestor Caleb Reed (1756-abt. 1835), I am ready to compile my annual Christmas genealogy project. Every year I write up something to distribute to the family. No one of my ancestors offered an obvious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}