{"id":20115,"date":"2024-06-14T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20115"},"modified":"2024-06-19T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:19:34","slug":"a-process-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/a-process-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Process by any other Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I did it before they gave it names. Found my ancestor in 1820 census in Kentucky. Couldn&#8217;t find him after that&#8230;where did he go? So I looked for his 1820 neighbors in the 1830 census&#8230;names that were slightly less common (I ignored the John Smiths). Found several of them in a county in Indiana. Looked through those census pages and there was my ancestor, under a totally sloppily-written misspelling of his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now they have fancy names for it. In the late 1980s, I just called it research &lt;grin>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out <em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/more-genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">More Genealogy Tip of the Day.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it before they gave it names. Found my ancestor in 1820 census in Kentucky. Couldn&#8217;t find him after that&#8230;where did he go? So I looked for his 1820 neighbors in the 1830 census&#8230;names that were slightly less common (I ignored the John Smiths). Found several of them in a county in Indiana. Looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}