{"id":11581,"date":"2020-04-25T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2020-04-25T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T14:32:37","slug":"working-out-and-locker-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/25\/working-out-and-locker-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Out and Locker Rent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"593\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frozen-food-lockers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frozen-food-lockers.jpg 593w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/frozen-food-lockers-300x64.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My grandmother used to work out and my Grandpa paid locker rent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Grandma worked out in the 1920s and 1930s, it meant she worked for a neighboring family doing household chores, preparing meals, and other related tasks. When my Grandpa Neill paid locker rent in the 1940s it was for rent at a frozen food cooperative where he had freezer space where he and Grandma could store butchered meat and other food items they wanted to preserve by freezing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers of a certain age will already know what these terms mean. Others may not. Any document or record can easily contain a term or phrase whose meaning has changed over time. That chance increases as the genealogy research extends further and further back in time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there a chance that phrase didn&#8217;t mean then what it does now? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Our&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">book is available by mail-in order, credit card payment from me, or through Amazon.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother used to work out and my Grandpa paid locker rent. When Grandma worked out in the 1920s and 1930s, it meant she worked for a neighboring family doing household chores, preparing meals, and other related tasks. When my Grandpa Neill paid locker rent in the 1940s it was for rent at a frozen [&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-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","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=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}