{"id":17332,"date":"2023-11-23T08:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17332"},"modified":"2023-11-23T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:24:32","slug":"researching-those-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/researching-those-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching those Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes one would like to know a little more about their farming ancestor other than that &#8220;they were a farmer.&#8221; There are several sources that could tell you more about your ancestors farm, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>agricultural censuses&#8211;generally taken in the mid-to-late 19th century in the United States. <\/li><li>probate records&#8211;inventories may list agricultural implements owned by your ancestor, what crops were &#8220;in the field&#8221; or in storage at the time of their death.<\/li><li>newspapers&#8211;may (if you are lucky) refer to your farming ancestor or at least tell you what crops were grown in the area during the time period&#8211;but you will have to actually read the newspaper to get this information.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>GoogleBooks contains digital images of hundreds of books related to farming practices in earlier times, including George Edward Waring&#8217;s 1870 version of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=xUSAAAAAIAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=guide+to+husbandry&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiR147ZqNqCAxVgEFkFHY3dASkQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">The Handy-book of Husbandry: A Guide for Farmers, Young and Old.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purchase my &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/myemail.constantcontact.com\/Rooting-Around-for-Farmer-Genealogy-Released--1850-1940-Census-Analysis-and-1950-Census-Prep.html?soid=1119310626340&amp;aid=CRwVI7mwa2U\">Rooting Around for Farmers&#8221; webinar&#8211;immediate download<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes one would like to know a little more about their farming ancestor other than that &#8220;they were a farmer.&#8221; There are several sources that could tell you more about your ancestors farm, including: agricultural censuses&#8211;generally taken in the mid-to-late 19th century in the United States. probate records&#8211;inventories may list agricultural implements owned by your [&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-17332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332","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=17332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}