{"id":37,"date":"2011-01-20T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/01\/20\/a-census-success\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:59:08","slug":"a-census-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"A Census Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My great-grandfather Samuel H. Reed eludes me because he had a fairly common name, married more than once, and moved around a lot. I still do not have a complete census survey for him. I came one step closer recently when I finally found his record on the 1870 U.S. census. I knew that the prior year he had married Nancy Dudley in Illinois, and the first child, Anna, was born in Kansas in August 1870. Yet for years I could not locate Samuel and his bride in 1870 in Illinois, Kansas, or anywhere else. Finally, using some creative search techniques on Ancestry, I found them in Neosho County, Kansas. The script for their surname was a little hard to make out, and it had been indexed as &#8220;Beed&#8221;, not &#8220;Reed&#8221;. With modern technology, I could search for Samuel with just a first name and a birth year, bypassing the mis-indexed surname. Gotcha, Sam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My great-grandfather Samuel H. Reed eludes me because he had a fairly common name, married more than once, and moved around a lot. I still do not have a complete census survey for him. I came one step closer recently when I finally found his record on the 1870 U.S. census. I knew that the [&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-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}