{"id":15668,"date":"2022-08-30T17:53:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15668"},"modified":"2022-08-30T17:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:53:36","slug":"was-your-relative-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/was-your-relative-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Your Relative a Writer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"635\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/h-g-trautvetter-collecting-bills-rotarian.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/h-g-trautvetter-collecting-bills-rotarian.jpg 635w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/h-g-trautvetter-collecting-bills-rotarian-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your relative may not have written the &#8220;Great American Novel&#8221; or otherwise noteworthy fiction, but it&#8217;s possible he or she wrote something else that was published. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old newspapers may have contained a letter from your ancestor (either as a letter to the editor or as a &#8220;local correspondent). Trade publications may have contained a &#8220;how to&#8221; or career-based article written by your ancestor or about your ancestor. Publications of social or fraternal organizations may have also contained some of your ancestor&#8217;s writings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital images of newspapers are available on a variety of online sites, both free and fee-based. Other publications may be available digitally at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\">Google Books<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\">Archive.org,<\/a><\/em> or other archives of digital images of out-of-copyright publications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your relative may not have written the &#8220;Great American Novel&#8221; or otherwise noteworthy fiction, but it&#8217;s possible he or she wrote something else that was published. Old newspapers may have contained a letter from your ancestor (either as a letter to the editor or as a &#8220;local correspondent). Trade publications may have contained a &#8220;how [&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-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668","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=15668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}