{"id":16118,"date":"2022-12-31T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16118"},"modified":"2022-12-31T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:45:32","slug":"your-knowledge-of-local-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/your-knowledge-of-local-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Knowledge of Local Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you aware of the local geography where your ancestor lived? Having access to maps is a great help, but having a certain amount of information \u201cin your head\u201d can save time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For your city ancestors do you know the \u201cname of the neighborhood\u201d (if there was one)? Do you know names of nearby neighborhoods and towns? How close did your family live to the line that divided one city from another?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1924-hancock-county-illinois-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7597\" width=\"252\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1924-hancock-county-illinois-map.jpg 688w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1924-hancock-county-illinois-map-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1924-hancock-county-illinois-map-624x434.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For rural ancestors the same thing applies? What were the names of adjacent townships? How close were they to the county line? Did they live in a part of the county that had a nickname (perhaps based upon where most residents were originally from)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failing to know some local geography may cause you to look in the wrong place for your relative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you aware of the local geography where your ancestor lived? Having access to maps is a great help, but having a certain amount of information \u201cin your head\u201d can save time. For your city ancestors do you know the \u201cname of the neighborhood\u201d (if there was one)? Do you know names of nearby neighborhoods [&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-16118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118","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=16118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}