{"id":62,"date":"2011-08-10T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/08\/10\/rearranging-priorities\/"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T17:34:30","slug":"rearranging-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Rearranging Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week I said I would focus next on the newspaper microfilm from Charleston, Illinois<\/strong>. That plan did not work, because when I eagerly arrived at the library to look at it, I found they had ordered film from Charleston, South Carolina<\/strong> by mistake. So the reels went back, and the staff placed my order again. Microfilm reading will have to wait–probably another 6 weeks. In the meantime, I learned of a new Ancestry.com database of membership applications for the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Because I have several ancestors who served in that war, I decided to take a look at them. One who fought from Virginia was my great, great, ever-so-great uncle, Joshua Reed, and our family records show that he had just three daughters. I had assumed his line had daughtered out. When I looked at the applications submitted by his descendants, I was amazed to find that someone had applied for membership based on descent from Joshua’s son. He had a son? A new avenue to investigate! I am not sure yet where I will put this on the research priority list, but I am glad I took the time to search a new database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I said I would focus next on the newspaper microfilm from Charleston, Illinois. That plan did not work, because when I eagerly arrived at the library to look at it, I found they had ordered film from Charleston, South Carolina by mistake. So the reels went back, and the staff placed my order […]<\/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-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}