{"id":21326,"date":"2024-09-25T09:44:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T14:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=21326"},"modified":"2024-10-11T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:00:36","slug":"the-facts-of-borrowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/25\/the-facts-of-borrowing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facts of Borrowing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/goldenstein-deed-for-riceland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/goldenstein-deed-for-riceland-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/goldenstein-deed-for-riceland-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/goldenstein-deed-for-riceland-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/goldenstein-deed-for-riceland-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/goldenstein-deed-for-riceland.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On 13 March 1906, my relative was deeded 400 acres of land in Arkansas County, Arkansas. The deed was subject to a mortgage totaling $7000. The mortgagor was a man named Michael Pfeifer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When one discovers a relative owing money to someone else, it&#8217;s a good idea to do some investigating into that person to see if there was a relationship. Before banks were as prevalent as they are today, the lender might have been a relative, a private individual with money to lend as a personal investment (these transactions were often facilitated by lawyers or loan brokers), or loan company. I need to find out. In this case, I don&#8217;t think Pfeifer is a relative, but there is only one way to find that out: research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The person from whom your relative borrowed money could be a clue to their past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 March 1906, my relative was deeded 400 acres of land in Arkansas County, Arkansas. The deed was subject to a mortgage totaling $7000. The mortgagor was a man named Michael Pfeifer. When one discovers a relative owing money to someone else, it&#8217;s a good idea to do some investigating into that person to [&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-21326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326","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=21326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}