{"id":28,"date":"2010-10-21T19:59:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2010\/10\/21\/genealogy-message-boards\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T19:59:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:59:46","slug":"genealogy-message-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Message Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When internet use first became widespread, genealogists began using online message boards to locate others who might be researching the same family lines. I have followed the Genforum on genealogy.com and the message boards on Rootsweb for a long time. Although traffic on these has slowed in recent years, enough people still log in to make the effort of checking them worthwhile. I have found relatives in Canada, Germany, and all over the United States, either through messages I have posted or by responding to those of others. You can join two different types of boards&#8211;surname or locale. Recently I learned that a couple of my relatives early in the 20th century had married into the Susag family (no message board for that name), so I posted a query on a board for Griggs Co., ND (where the marriages took place). A couple of days later, a Susag researcher sent me a Susag family tree that included my relatives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When internet use first became widespread, genealogists began using online message boards to locate others who might be researching the same family lines. I have followed the Genforum on genealogy.com and the message boards on Rootsweb for a long time. Although traffic on these has slowed in recent years, enough people still log in to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}