{"id":12527,"date":"2020-11-20T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2020-11-20T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T15:36:17","slug":"an-ebay-item-or-newspaper-reference-to-generate-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/20\/an-ebay-item-or-newspaper-reference-to-generate-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ebay Item or Newspaper Reference to Generate Memories?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not every family has a cache of mementos, ephemera, and other memorabilia that are a physical reminder of the past. There is also no doubt that such items can be a great way to jump start someone&#8217;s memories. A picture of the county courthouse, an old restaurant, the town square, etc. are reminders of times past that can help start a conversation about the &#8220;old times.&#8221; Pictures or items the person can hold can open the memory floodgates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebay.us\/3IZFV6\">Ebay is one way to obtain such items<\/a>&#8211;sometimes for a cheap price if you avoid the pricier items. You don&#8217;t need anything fancy or expensive. A post card picture, a matchbook from a restaurant, a cheap political button, etc. are all ways to help start the conversation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading digital newspapers for the time period in question and making notes about local historical events, movies showing in the theatre, contemporary political candidates, etc. can be a great way to get a list of things to ask about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just be careful with using political candidates as a way to get a family member remembering. You might have difficulty getting them off that topic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every family has a cache of mementos, ephemera, and other memorabilia that are a physical reminder of the past. There is also no doubt that such items can be a great way to jump start someone&#8217;s memories. A picture of the county courthouse, an old restaurant, the town square, etc. are reminders of times [&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-12527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527","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=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}