{"id":10828,"date":"2019-11-07T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:31:26","slug":"the-legal-wont-tell-you-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/the-legal-wont-tell-you-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legal Won&#8217;t Tell You Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The legal description of your relative&#8217;s property won&#8217;t tell you everything about it. Locating it on a map (contemporary if possible, but those are not always available) may provide you with more details about the location. This map indicated that the timber claim filed by a relative was located along a channel of the Platte River in Dawson County, Nebraska. The Union Pacific Railway also ran through the property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/legal-not-everything.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/legal-not-everything.jpg 605w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/legal-not-everything-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The legal description is helpful and important to have. It&#8217;s just not the only thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal description of your relative&#8217;s property won&#8217;t tell you everything about it. Locating it on a map (contemporary if possible, but those are not always available) may provide you with more details about the location. This map indicated that the timber claim filed by a relative was located along a channel of the Platte [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}