{"id":4646,"date":"2016-04-11T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2016-04-11T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T20:04:39","slug":"sometimes-text-messages-will-not-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/11\/sometimes-text-messages-will-not-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Text Messages Will Not Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you sketched out the migration of your ancestor on a map? To help sift out two men with a similar name, I put all their pre-1850 census enumerations on a map of New York, marking the locations. Sometimes a picture helps.<\/p>\n<p>I was recently helping a friend with a genealogy problem and all our discussion appeared in a chat window in\u00a0<em>Facebook<\/em>. I kept thinking to myself that I would have been less confused if I could have had the information in some sort of chart or chronology and another sheet with locations mapped out.<\/p>\n<p>Unorganized text can make it difficult to notice things.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mapitout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4647\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4647\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mapitout.jpg\" alt=\"mapitout\" width=\"604\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mapitout.jpg 604w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mapitout-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you sketched out the migration of your ancestor on a map? To help sift out two men with a similar name, I put all their pre-1850 census enumerations on a map of New York, marking the locations. Sometimes a picture helps. I was recently helping a friend with a genealogy problem and all our [&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-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}