{"id":77,"date":"2011-12-08T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T22:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2011\/12\/08\/winding-down-for-the-christmas-season\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:34:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T22:34:54","slug":"winding-down-for-the-christmas-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Winding Down For the Christmas Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MH900354203.jpg\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In December I usually wind down my genealogical research for the year. This year, as I focused on my Reed line, I collected photos and documents on the Reed family of Ashmore, Illinois. I scoured records looking for any mention of my great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey Reed. Finally, this month I wrote a character sketch of him and mailed it off with a photo of him to other family members.<\/p>\n<p>Now I will spend the rest of December preparing for Christmas and the new year. In January, I will turn to my Finnish ancestor line and see what I can find. I have not done much on that lineage since before the internet age, so I am eager to see what turns up.<\/p>\n<p>Hyvaa Joulua! Onnellista uutta vuotta!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December I usually wind down my genealogical research for the year. This year, as I focused on my Reed line, I collected photos and documents on the Reed family of Ashmore, Illinois. I scoured records looking for any mention of my great-grandfather, Samuel Harvey Reed. Finally, this month I wrote a character sketch of [&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-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}