{"id":16677,"date":"2023-05-23T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16677"},"modified":"2023-05-23T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:40:44","slug":"did-your-ancestor-rush-somewhere-and-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/23\/did-your-ancestor-rush-somewhere-and-return-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Your Ancestor &#8220;Rush&#8221; Somewhere and Return Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If your ancestor goes &#8220;poof&#8221; and comes back 5-10 or so years later, have you consider they headed west for the Gold Rush or any other event that caused people to pack up and leave in a hurry? Some families found life wasn&#8217;t all what they thought it would be in their new location and returned to where they were from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course, the direction might not have been west at all. It&#8217;s just worth remembering that your anecstor might have moved somewhere in hopes of better opportunities and, when finding those opportunities weren&#8217;t what they thought they would be, eventually headed &#8220;back home.&#8221;\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your ancestor goes &#8220;poof&#8221; and comes back 5-10 or so years later, have you consider they headed west for the Gold Rush or any other event that caused people to pack up and leave in a hurry? Some families found life wasn&#8217;t all what they thought it would be in their new location and [&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-16677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16677","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=16677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}