{"id":24214,"date":"2025-02-13T07:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24214"},"modified":"2025-02-13T07:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:53:22","slug":"ancestral-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/ancestral-employer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Employer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>City directories, draft registration cards, obituaries, home sources, death certificates and other sources may mention the name of an ancestral employer. Don&#8217;t stop there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about your ancestor\u2019s employer as given in a city directory, search the rest of the city directory as it may include advertisements or list the employer in a list of area businesses. Consider performing a Google search for the name of the business and search local and regional histories as well, many of which have been digitized at\u00a0<em>Google Books<\/em>\u00a0(http:\/\/books.google.com) or\u00a0<em>Archive.org\u00a0<\/em>(http:\/\/www.archive.org). Local libraries and historical societies may also be able to help you in your search to learn more about your ancestral employer&#8211;including if there is any chance the company&#8217;s employee records are still extant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City directories, draft registration cards, obituaries, home sources, death certificates and other sources may mention the name of an ancestral employer. Don&#8217;t stop there. To learn more about your ancestor\u2019s employer as given in a city directory, search the rest of the city directory as it may include advertisements or list the employer in a [&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-24214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214","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=24214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}