{"id":24004,"date":"2025-01-31T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24004"},"modified":"2025-02-01T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:23:56","slug":"too-big-to-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/too-big-to-preserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Big to Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some items that have genealogical or historical relevance to your family are too large to preserve, have left family ownership, or have already passed from ownership or ceased to exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about family businesses, family farms, automobiles, farm equipment, homes, neighborhoods, and the like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are still some things you can do to preserve the memory of these things to which your family has a connection, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Curation of photographs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creation of custom-made maps (of the neighborhood, the farm, the inside of the home, the house and surrounding buildings, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recording of family members&#8217; memories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Locating newspaper accounts of the items<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curation of memorabilia related to the neighborhood or business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Preservation of large items may require some creativity and can be a good activity when we are stuck on locating information on long-deceased humans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some items that have genealogical or historical relevance to your family are too large to preserve, have left family ownership, or have already passed from ownership or ceased to exist. I&#8217;m talking about family businesses, family farms, automobiles, farm equipment, homes, neighborhoods, and the like. There are still some things you can do to preserve [&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-24004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24004","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=24004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}