{"id":73,"date":"2011-11-10T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/11\/10\/find-time-to-surf-the-net\/"},"modified":"2011-11-10T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:10:55","slug":"find-time-to-surf-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Find Time to Surf the \u2018Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MH900059227.jpg\" height=\"103\" width=\"103\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Usually I try to follow a research plan when doing family history. An organized approach helps me make sure I do not overlook sources. This way, I pursue my goal of comprehensive, exhaustive research on any given question. Interestingly enough, surfing the internet can fit into a good research plan. You never know what you will find.<\/p>\n<p>This week, as I wind down my Reed research for the year, I decided to Google some of Samuel Reed&#8217;s family again. I did not find anything new on him, but then I plugged in his father&#8217;s name, Caleb Reed.\u00a0 As I drilled down into the results page for this search, I found some interesting records online.<\/p>\n<p>Actually there were several men named Caleb Reed, all related, and over the years they lived in Fayette County, PA, Spencer County, KY, and Coles County, IL. I found their names on a list of property owners in Fayette County in 1787 and on a list of Kentucky wills from the 1790&#8217;s. Given that vital records from that time period usually do not exist and census records may be missing, these are valuable finds.<\/p>\n<p>Surfing the Internet proved to be a wise use of my time. It yielded some good results with no travel required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Usually I try to follow a research plan when doing family history. An organized approach helps me make sure I do not overlook sources. This way, I pursue my goal of comprehensive, exhaustive research on any given question. Interestingly enough, surfing the internet can fit into a good research plan. You never know what [&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-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}