{"id":16751,"date":"2023-06-15T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16751"},"modified":"2023-06-15T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:57:38","slug":"when-you-know-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/when-you-know-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"When You &#8220;Know Everything&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first looked at this plat book years ago when I thought I &#8220;knew everything&#8221; and that the plat book showing properties and landowners would teach me nothing new. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/hancock-bear-creek-1890s-1024x810.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/hancock-bear-creek-1890s-1024x810.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/hancock-bear-creek-1890s-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/hancock-bear-creek-1890s-768x607.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1890s map showed the eighty-parcel in section 10 of Hancock County, Illinois; Bear Creek Township owned my my forebear John Johnson. An adjacent landowner was Henry Sartorius. Sartorius was John&#8217;s father-in-law and a man who I had originally thought spent his entire life in Adams County, Illinois, after arriving in the United States. He did not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sartorius only owned in Hancock County and lived there for a few years&#8211;he is not enumerated in any census records there. This plat book was the first document I found showing he lived in Hancock County&#8211;a document I thought I did not need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You never know what information something contains until you look at it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first looked at this plat book years ago when I thought I &#8220;knew everything&#8221; and that the plat book showing properties and landowners would teach me nothing new. I was wrong. The 1890s map showed the eighty-parcel in section 10 of Hancock County, Illinois; Bear Creek Township owned my my forebear John Johnson. An [&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-16751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751","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=16751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}