{"id":75,"date":"2011-11-23T13:24:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/11\/23\/living-in-the-land-of-lincoln\/"},"modified":"2011-11-23T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T20:24:31","slug":"living-in-the-land-of-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Land of Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MH900009834.jpg\" height=\"114\" width=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I track my family back in time, I have found an interesting search aid. My family often lived near the Lincoln family, yes &#8220;that&#8221; Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>I first realized this when I began looking at 19th-century Coles County, Illinois records. The Reeds moved there in 1830, and Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s parents came shortly after. Next, I began looking at early 19th-century records for the Louisville, KY area. The Reeds went there after the Revolutionary War, and sure enough, Lincoln&#8217;s family was living in the area, too. There, his grandfather, Abraham Lincoln (or Linkum) was slain by Indians as his six-year-old son Thomas (father of the President) look on. Earlier generations of Lincolns lived in Hingham, Massachusetts where they were neighbors of another branch of my family, the Dunbars.<\/p>\n<p>Although I have never found a family connection to the Lincolns, I have found research to be a little easier because of the proximity of the families. Presidential families are heavily researched, and I have benefited from the availability of records in areas where the Lincolns lived. It helps when others have unearthed and published important records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I track my family back in time, I have found an interesting search aid. My family often lived near the Lincoln family, yes &#8220;that&#8221; Lincoln. I first realized this when I began looking at 19th-century Coles County, Illinois records. The Reeds moved there in 1830, and Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s parents came shortly after. Next, 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-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}