{"id":12016,"date":"2020-08-02T16:17:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T21:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2020-08-02T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T21:17:21","slug":"searching-for-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/02\/searching-for-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Searching digital county histories, newspapers, and other items for ancestral names is usually on a genealogist&#8217;s to-do list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another item to search for in these items are place names from your family&#8217;s past&#8211;before they lived in the area on which the publications focus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my Hancock County, Illinois, families originated in Coshocton County, Ohio. Searching for &#8220;coshocton&#8221; was a way to learn of other individuals who had that word mentioned in their biography, obituary, etc. A similar approach was done to locate references to Rush County, Indiana, for digital publications that focused on Macon County, Missouri. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Searches of this type can also be a way to find references to your ancestor (that also mention the location) when the digital rendering of the name is one that cannot be found by database query techniques. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching digital county histories, newspapers, and other items for ancestral names is usually on a genealogist&#8217;s to-do list. Another item to search for in these items are place names from your family&#8217;s past&#8211;before they lived in the area on which the publications focus. One of my Hancock County, Illinois, families originated in Coshocton County, Ohio. [&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-12016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016","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=12016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}