{"id":4227,"date":"2016-01-22T07:36:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2016-01-21T21:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:45:59","slug":"sharing-the-beer-box-to-generate-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/22\/sharing-the-beer-box-to-generate-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the Beer Box to Generate Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/beer-box.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4228 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/beer-box-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"beer-box\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/beer-box-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/beer-box-624x448.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/beer-box.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There are a variety of ways one can interest &#8220;non-genealogists&#8221; in family history.<\/p>\n<p>I recently posted this image from an 1889 estate settlement that mentions cash received from the return of a &#8220;beer box.&#8221; I shared it with a few of my second cousins on Facebook who got a kick out of it. We even had a brief discussion about the purchase\/storage of beer in the late 19th century. Sometimes sharing something &#8220;non-genealogical&#8221; can help to either generate interest in the past or spur a discussion of it.<\/p>\n<p>Is there something outside of the births, marriages, deaths, and &#8220;begats&#8221; that you could share?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of ways one can interest &#8220;non-genealogists&#8221; in family history. I recently posted this image from an 1889 estate settlement that mentions cash received from the return of a &#8220;beer box.&#8221; I shared it with a few of my second cousins on Facebook who got a kick out of it. We even [&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-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","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=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}