{"id":15738,"date":"2022-09-13T21:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15738"},"modified":"2022-09-14T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T02:47:07","slug":"greeting-cards-as-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/greeting-cards-as-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeting Cards as Clues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>A tip from the past:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> When my parents were married in 1967, they received a congratulatory card from Ola Howes. The name did not ring a bell to me and I concluded it was a former neighbor or a fellow teacher of my mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon asking Mom who Ola Howes was, I was told that &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years later in my research, I discovered that my paternal great-grandfather had a first cousin Ola (Baker) Howes (their mothers were half-sisters). She had apparently seen my parents&#8217; announcement in the paper and sent a card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are there genealogical clues hiding in old greeting cards?\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tip from the past: When my parents were married in 1967, they received a congratulatory card from Ola Howes. The name did not ring a bell to me and I concluded it was a former neighbor or a fellow teacher of my mother. Upon asking Mom who Ola Howes was, I was told that [&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-15738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738","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=15738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}