{"id":919,"date":"2016-01-28T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2016-01-28T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T20:54:33","slug":"time-to-look-beyond-the-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Time To Look Beyond the Census"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Despite spending quite a bit of time this week on census records for my current research project, I did not discover anything new about my subject, Thomas Sherman of Coles County, Illinois.\n<\/p>\n

Several men named Thomas Sherman lived in Illinois during the life span of my Thomas. If I have identified the correct man, he lived from 1841 to 1912. He resided in Kentucky as a boy, but he had settled in Illinois by 1870. The census records for 1870-1910 tell me this:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. His birthplace is uncertain, having variously been reported as Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.\n<\/li>\n
  2. He worked as a blacksmith in every census year and usually owned a shop.\n<\/li>\n
  3. His middle initial was A.\n<\/li>\n
  4. He was married three times. Two of the wives were named Mary and Alice.\n<\/li>\n
  5. He was a natural-born citizen.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Unfortunately, these records do not tell me what I want to know. The big questions:\n<\/p>\n

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    1. Did Thomas serve in the Civil War as the family claims?\n<\/li>\n
    2. Who was the first wife, the woman who was my great-great grandmother?\n<\/li>\n
    3. Why was my great-grandmother, the daughter of Thomas and the unknown woman, omitted from Thomas’ obituary?\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I must keep digging if I ever hope to answer these questions. I have done all I can with census records and county histories. Now I must move on to locate other records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Despite spending quite a bit of time this week on census records for my current research project, I did not discover anything new about my subject, Thomas Sherman of Coles County, Illinois. Several men named Thomas Sherman lived in Illinois during the life span of my Thomas. If I have identified the correct man, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-sherman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}