{"id":3087,"date":"2015-07-04T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2015-07-04T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T13:53:00","slug":"tips-from-an-ancestor-who-died-on-4-july-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/04\/tips-from-an-ancestor-who-died-on-4-july-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips from an Ancestor Who Died on 4 July 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augusta Newman died in White County, Indiana on 4 July 1861. Here&#8217;s a few quick tips from things I discovered about his life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never assume gender based solely on a name&#8211;yes, he was named Augusta and not August.<\/li>\n<li>Always search for military records&#8211;I never knew he was in the War of 1812 and his bounty land application was full of good material.<\/li>\n<li>Search for quit claim deeds after death&#8211;they gave all his heirs and their counties of residence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy 4th of July to Tip fans, followers, and readers in the US!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augusta Newman died in White County, Indiana on 4 July 1861. Here&#8217;s a few quick tips from things I discovered about his life: Never assume gender based solely on a name&#8211;yes, he was named Augusta and not August. Always search for military records&#8211;I never knew he was in the War of 1812 and his bounty [&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-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","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=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}