{"id":36,"date":"2011-01-06T09:53:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/01\/06\/changing-focus\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:53:43","slug":"changing-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Changing Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I spent my research time on my Norwegian family. At the end of the year, I had enough information to do a nice biographical sketch of my great-grandparents, Sofie and Ole Bentsen. I have done similar sketches of other great-grandparents in previous years, including Laura Riddle and Anna Petronellia Sherman. Among those I still need to do is my paternal great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey Reed. He had what the cousins call &#8220;that Reed wanderlust&#8221;, and he traveled around a lot. I have many gaps in his timeline, and his Civil War service remains undocumented. Even his name is a puzzle because he was the oldest son yet not named for any family member that I can identify. Yet both he and a cousin were named &#8220;Samuel Harvey&#8221;, so who was the original Samuel Harvey? This year I plan to focus my research efforts on my Samuel and the Reed line. This guy will be tough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I spent my research time on my Norwegian family. At the end of the year, I had enough information to do a nice biographical sketch of my great-grandparents, Sofie and Ole Bentsen. I have done similar sketches of other great-grandparents in previous years, including Laura Riddle and Anna Petronellia Sherman. Among those I [&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-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}