{"id":32013,"date":"2026-01-26T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32013"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:25:52","slug":"us-1890s-era-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/us-1890s-era-research\/","title":{"rendered":"US 1890s Era Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The essentially missing 1890 US census creates a significant record gap for researchers. One way to potentially bridge that gap is to take a deep dive into newspaper records during the 1880-1900 time period for the ancestor in question. While newspapers are not a true substitute for the census (both records have different goals), newspapers can shed light on some family mysteries during this time period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newspapers can document moves, relationships, vital events and more in your ancestor&#8217;s life. They do not provide that one-moment-in-time snapshot of your ancestor&#8217;s life, but they can shed some light on your person. Newspapers also may not reference everyone who ever lived in an area&#8211;as the census is intended to do&#8211;but they do (particularly in rural areas) mention a high proportion of the population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to LSP on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/genealogytipoftheday\"><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> Group Page <\/a>for this suggestion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The essentially missing 1890 US census creates a significant record gap for researchers. One way to potentially bridge that gap is to take a deep dive into newspaper records during the 1880-1900 time period for the ancestor in question. While newspapers are not a true substitute for the census (both records have different goals), newspapers [&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-32013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32013","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=32013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}