{"id":14962,"date":"2022-03-27T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14962"},"modified":"2022-03-27T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:58:09","slug":"pension-clues-to-migration-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/27\/pension-clues-to-migration-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension Clues to Migration Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An excellent place to learn your ancestor&#8217;s unique (or not so unique) migration path across the country is from his or her pension record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nancy Rampley&#8217;s pension record documents her parents&#8217; migration from Kentucky into Indiana into Illinois into Missouri. And it was her husband who was actually in the Civil War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revolutionary War era pensions for two of my wife&#8217;s ancestors shows their migration across several states from the time of the Revolution until the 1830s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that a pension on a sibling or a cousin of an ancestor might provide clues about that ancestor&#8217;s migrations as well.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/3Lb8z5Z\">Get ready for the release of the 1950 census with my webinar\u2013special offer!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent place to learn your ancestor&#8217;s unique (or not so unique) migration path across the country is from his or her pension record. Nancy Rampley&#8217;s pension record documents her parents&#8217; migration from Kentucky into Indiana into Illinois into Missouri. And it was her husband who was actually in the Civil War. Revolutionary War era [&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-14962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962","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=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}