{"id":2608,"date":"2009-10-09T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/09\/looking-at-things-you-have-not-really-looked-at-in-years"},"modified":"2009-10-09T03:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T03:54:00","slug":"looking-at-things-you-have-not-really-looked-at-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/09\/looking-at-things-you-have-not-really-looked-at-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at things you have not really looked at in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about my brick wall ancestor, Ira Sargent, in a recent column for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casefileclues.com\/\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Casefile<\/span> Clues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the records mentioned was his 1900 census enumeration. I had originally looked at it years ago, probably when I was 14 or 15 years of age. I had seen it several times in the interim and really hadn&#8217;t given it a lot of thought.<\/p>\n<p>A reader pointed out that part of his census entry looked like it was in a different hand and perhaps had an item written in it after the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">census taker<\/span> had made his enumeration. I&#8217;m not certain what was going on with the entry, but it makes a good point that perhaps something you&#8217;ve seen several times over several years may contain an <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">anomaly that you may never have noticed. <\/span><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\"><\/span><br \/><span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">Is there something you first looked at years ago that perhaps warrants a second look?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about my brick wall ancestor, Ira Sargent, in a recent column for Casefile Clues. One of the records mentioned was his 1900 census enumeration. I had originally looked at it years ago, probably when I was 14 or 15 years of age. I had seen it several times in the interim and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","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\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}