{"id":33760,"date":"2026-05-10T13:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=33760"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:34:41","slug":"your-relative-the-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/your-relative-the-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Relative the Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"635\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/h-g-trautvetter-collecting-bills-rotarian.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/h-g-trautvetter-collecting-bills-rotarian.jpg 635w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/h-g-trautvetter-collecting-bills-rotarian-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your relative may not have written the \u201cGreat American Novel\u201d or otherwise noteworthy fiction, but it\u2019s possible he or she wrote something else that was published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old newspapers may have contained a letter from your ancestor (either as a letter to the editor or as a \u201clocal correspondent). Trade publications may have contained a \u201chow to\u201d or career-based article written by your ancestor or about your ancestor. Publications of social or fraternal organizations may have also contained some of your ancestor\u2019s writings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital images of newspapers are available on a variety of online sites, both free and fee-based. Other publications may be available digitally at&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\">Google Books<\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\">Archive.org,<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;or other archives of digital images of out-of-copyright publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your relative may not have written the \u201cGreat American Novel\u201d or otherwise noteworthy fiction, but it\u2019s possible he or she wrote something else that was published. Old newspapers may have contained a letter from your ancestor (either as a letter to the editor or as a \u201clocal correspondent). Trade publications may have contained a \u201chow [&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":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760","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=33760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}