{"id":10990,"date":"2019-12-11T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2019-12-11T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:22:48","slug":"business-owners-in-the-back-of-the-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/11\/business-owners-in-the-back-of-the-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Owners in the Back of the Directory?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mortier-louise-boarding-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10992\" width=\"331\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mortier-louise-boarding-house.jpg 720w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mortier-louise-boarding-house-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Directories are great sources, but don&#8217;t neglect to see if there are lists in the back of individuals with various businesses and occupations. This 1891-1892 directory of Rock Island, Illinois, contained a reference to a boarding house owned by Mrs. Louisa Mortier. That was a discovery and now I need to see if the address of the boarding house is the same address listed as her husband&#8217;s reference.  The family had no boarders listed in their 1880 census enumeration&#8211;but that was almost ten years before the reference in this city directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A relative may easily have had a business or occupation of which you were unaware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directories are great sources, but don&#8217;t neglect to see if there are lists in the back of individuals with various businesses and occupations. This 1891-1892 directory of Rock Island, Illinois, contained a reference to a boarding house owned by Mrs. Louisa Mortier. That was a discovery and now I need to see if the address [&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-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","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=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}