{"id":15622,"date":"2022-08-19T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:15:57","slug":"never-overlook-a-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/never-overlook-a-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Overlook a Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had quite a few relatives who homesteaded in Dawson County, Nebraska, in the 1880s. I have created maps that show the relative position of their homesteads.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p>An uncle lived in the same county, but came a few years later and purchased his property from a landowner instead of homesteading it. I never bothered to see where his property was located.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it was across the road from where his nephew homesteaded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Always map out those properties.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=TQCEP4XBNPBVU\">Get <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=TQCEP4XBNPBVU\">Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=TQCEP4XBNPBVU\">&#8211;the book&#8211;for $17. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Details about the book here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had quite a few relatives who homesteaded in Dawson County, Nebraska, in the 1880s. I have created maps that show the relative position of their homesteads.\u00a0 An uncle lived in the same county, but came a few years later and purchased his property from a landowner instead of homesteading it. I never bothered to [&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-15622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622","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=15622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}