{"id":35381,"date":"2026-08-01T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=35381"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:56:48","slug":"together-for-a-visit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/together-for-a-visit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Together for a Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 1906 newspaper reference to my uncle and his wife provides several tips or reminders in one quick note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u201cJoe Neal and daughter Jennie and Mrs. Harper and daughter Anna returned home last Friday after a two weeks visit with relatives in Polo, Mo.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I located the entry by manually searching for the alternate spelling of my last name. The site that hosted this image, at least at the time I used it, did not support soundex-based searches and wildcard searches required at least two letters to be used initially before a wildcard operator was used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The connection between the individuals named in the newspaper is not stated. Frustrating for the genealogist. It\u2019s worth remembering that the individuals reading the newspaper at the time already knew those relationships. Newspapers were not always concerned about stating things clearly for someone reading the item 110 years or more later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t assume what the relationships are. You may be incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMrs. Harper\u201d is not identified any further\u2013although she does have a daughter Anna. Women are not always identified as completely as we would like. That\u2019s reflective of the time and also because \u201ceveryone knew who was meant by \u2018Mrs. Harper.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lastly: do not forget to follow up on items you locate. I just realized that my goal of doing more work on this item fell by the wayside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The post I originally wrote \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Headed to Polo in 1906<\/a>\u201d was published on my other website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1906 newspaper reference to my uncle and his wife provides several tips or reminders in one quick note: \u201cJoe Neal and daughter Jennie and Mrs. Harper and daughter Anna returned home last Friday after a two weeks visit with relatives in Polo, Mo.\u201d I located the entry by manually searching for the alternate spelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381","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=35381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}