{"id":12412,"date":"2020-10-28T08:53:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12412"},"modified":"2020-10-28T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:53:29","slug":"clue-pointing-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/28\/clue-pointing-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Clue Pointing You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pointing-clue.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12413\" width=\"268\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pointing-clue.jpg 482w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pointing-clue-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><figcaption>Winnie&#8217;s probably thinking of bacon treats and not her canine forebears. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This picture, with the dog&#8217;s ear apparently pointing towards something, serves to remind us of at least two things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One is that most documents contain clues pointing us in one direction or another&#8211;we just need to take the time to see them. Those clues can be direct, in-your-face statements. Those clues can be subtle references to a person&#8217;s age, religious affiliation, military experience, previous residences, etc. The person&#8217;s presence on a document may indicate they were &#8220;eligible&#8221; for one thing or another&#8211;to vote, to register for the draft, to serve on a jury, to own land, etc.&#8211;that is a clue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the ear? Well it suggests listening to what the document or record has to say. Reading it out loud is not necessary, but thinking about what it says is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture, with the dog&#8217;s ear apparently pointing towards something, serves to remind us of at least two things. One is that most documents contain clues pointing us in one direction or another&#8211;we just need to take the time to see them. Those clues can be direct, in-your-face statements. Those clues can be subtle references [&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-12412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412","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=12412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}