{"id":24616,"date":"2025-03-14T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24616"},"modified":"2025-03-15T06:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T11:38:17","slug":"trunk-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/trunk-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Trunk Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are several quick (if someone basic) genealogical reminders from this trunk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abbreviations can change (Ills. for Illinois is not used much today)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Town names can change (Keokuk Junction is known as Golden)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First names may get spelled in many ways (this is the only reference to Altje where her first name is spelled \u201cAhltie\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You never know when someone may contact you with a family heirloom that they\u2019ve discovered (an antique dealer came across this and Googled the name on the trunk).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trunk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trunk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trunk.jpg 392w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trunk-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Altje Goldenstein immigrated around 1870 and settled in Adams County, Illinois. She was married in Adams County, Illinois, to Hinrich Schuster and they both died in Hancock County, Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several quick (if someone basic) genealogical reminders from this trunk: Altje Goldenstein immigrated around 1870 and settled in Adams County, Illinois. She was married in Adams County, Illinois, to Hinrich Schuster and they both died in Hancock County, Illinois.<\/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-24616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616","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=24616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}