{"id":11040,"date":"2019-12-22T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11040"},"modified":"2019-12-22T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T15:54:58","slug":"farm-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/22\/farm-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Ad?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"532\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/farm-described.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/farm-described.jpg 532w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/farm-described-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This 1857 ad described the Peter Oller farm as being 210 acres of property on the Augusta Road nine miles east of Warsaw with two good houses, three wells, and a good young orchard. The farm&#8217;s precise location is something that could be documented with local land records which could help me determine where the Augusta Road was located if that had not been known. It&#8217;s very possible your relative described his farm in an advertisement for its sale and such a listing may be the only place to get a description in an era before photographs, agricultural censuses, and similar records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">At long last! Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here.&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1857 ad described the Peter Oller farm as being 210 acres of property on the Augusta Road nine miles east of Warsaw with two good houses, three wells, and a good young orchard. The farm&#8217;s precise location is something that could be documented with local land records which could help me determine where the [&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-11040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040","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=11040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}