{"id":15532,"date":"2022-07-21T21:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T02:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15532"},"modified":"2022-07-21T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T02:45:36","slug":"dont-be-chicken-look-in-the-back-of-the-directory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/dont-be-chicken-look-in-the-back-of-the-directory-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Chicken\u2013Look in the Back of the Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/goldenstein-chickens.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/goldenstein-chickens.jpg 613w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/goldenstein-chickens-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><figcaption>chicken breeder directory in a county-wide directory from 1918<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Residential or business directories&nbsp;may contain sub-directories of specific occupations after the \u201cmain directory.\u201d These directories may contain additional clues about your ancestor. Don\u2019t just find your ancestor once and quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be smaller directories in the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The illustration shows a list of Silver-Laced Wyan-Dotte chicken breeders in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1918.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look in the back. Don\u2019t be chicken &lt;grin&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residential or business directories&nbsp;may contain sub-directories of specific occupations after the \u201cmain directory.\u201d These directories may contain additional clues about your ancestor. Don\u2019t just find your ancestor once and quit. There may be smaller directories in the back. The illustration shows a list of Silver-Laced Wyan-Dotte chicken breeders in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1918. Look [&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-15532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532","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=15532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}