{"id":833,"date":"2015-12-10T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2015-12-10T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:10:32","slug":"time-to-switch-genealogical-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"Time To Switch Genealogical Gears"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"At last I have completed this year’s genealogical project, my story of Jane and Caleb Reed, and mailed it out to the relatives. Now I can celebrate Christmas, clean up the office, and prepare a research plan for next year.\n<\/p>\n

Having finished research projects on all my known great-grandparents, I am now working through my sixteen great-great grandparents. Next up will be the blacksmith Thomas Sherman, 1841-1912. He lived in Illinois from about 1870 on.\n<\/p>\n

This ancestor left some unanswered questions that I will work to resolve in 2016:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Where was he born?\n<\/li>\n
  2. Did he serve in the Civil War as he claimed?\n<\/li>\n
  3. How many times was he married, and who were his wives?\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The last question poses the most interesting puzzle for me because his first wife would have been my ancestor. I know nothing about her except that according to family lore she was a German girl who came to America when she was about 8 years old. She was said to have died near Indianapolis after the birth of her only child, my great-grandmother Anna Petronellia Sherman, in 1865.\n<\/p>\n

    It has been several years since I last worked on Thomas’ life, and I am eager to get re-acquainted with him. What new resources will I find? Will I be taking a research trip for this project? I cannot wait to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At last I have completed this year’s genealogical project, my story of Jane and Caleb Reed, and mailed it out to the relatives. Now I can celebrate Christmas, clean up the office, and prepare a research plan for next year. Having finished research projects on all my known great-grandparents, I am now working through my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}