{"id":3401,"date":"2015-08-16T08:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T13:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2015-08-16T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T13:46:46","slug":"do-you-know-the-legal-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/16\/do-you-know-the-legal-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know the Legal Description?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know the legal description of any real estate your ancestor owned in the United States? The legal description precisely states where your ancestor&#8217;s property is located, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lot 5 in block 2 of section 8 of Wilson&#8217;s Addition to the City of Warsaw, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>The north half of section 2 in township 4 north of the 5th principal meridian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some land indexes are organized geographically. Tax records are organized geographically and other records are organized in this fashion as well.<\/p>\n<p>In upcoming tips we&#8217;ll have ideas on finding that legal description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know the legal description of any real estate your ancestor owned in the United States? The legal description precisely states where your ancestor&#8217;s property is located, such as: Lot 5 in block 2 of section 8 of Wilson&#8217;s Addition to the City of Warsaw, Illinois The north half of section 2 in township [&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-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","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=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}