{"id":12060,"date":"2020-08-14T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12060"},"modified":"2020-08-14T09:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:31:10","slug":"googlebook-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/14\/googlebook-it\/","title":{"rendered":"GoogleBook it!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I realize that &#8220;GoogleBook&#8221; is not a verb and really is not a word, but this will be your periodic reminder to search Google Books http:\/\/books.google.com for those terms you find in old estate inventories, court records, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A guide to &#8220;horse medicine&#8221; from the 1840s explained everything I was not understanding about a dead horse mentioned in a 1805 lawsuit from Virginia. It also helped me to transcribe a few words that were difficult to read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also learned more about animal care in the 19th century than I knew. It was an interesting read for someone who grew up with livestock nearly 200 years after the court record was written. Some things have changed. Others have not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GoogleBook has not changed into a verb, but it&#8217;s still an activity that could help you with those terms from centuries ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that &#8220;GoogleBook&#8221; is not a verb and really is not a word, but this will be your periodic reminder to search Google Books http:\/\/books.google.com for those terms you find in old estate inventories, court records, etc. A guide to &#8220;horse medicine&#8221; from the 1840s explained everything I was not understanding about a dead [&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-12060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060","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=12060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}