{"id":15495,"date":"2022-07-12T19:41:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T00:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15495"},"modified":"2022-07-12T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T00:41:26","slug":"the-places-in-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/the-places-in-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Places in My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Are you using place names to describe where an ancestor was born, died, or was buried, that are not listed in any gazetteer? Make certain that you also include a more reference (eg. GPS coordinates) to assist others in finding the location. &#8220;Old names&#8221; or colloquial names for locations are fine in your notes and in your records&#8211;as long as you explain exactly what you mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a trip to visit my parents, I had to take my brother lunch where he was discing&#8211;&#8220;on the McNally place, you know past his forty, which is past McGaughey&#8217;s and turn south.&#8221; Of course those names would be on local plat books and other records, but sometimes those descriptions are only in people&#8217;s gray matter&#8211;particularly if the families for which a location is named did not own the property referenced by the name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t make that mistake. Clearly identify locations.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is Amazon Prime day&#8230;c<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/\">heck out the books on my bookshelf<\/a> and see if there&#8217;s one you want to add to your collection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you using place names to describe where an ancestor was born, died, or was buried, that are not listed in any gazetteer? Make certain that you also include a more reference (eg. GPS coordinates) to assist others in finding the location. &#8220;Old names&#8221; or colloquial names for locations are fine in your notes and [&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-15495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495","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=15495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}