{"id":4868,"date":"2016-05-20T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2016-05-20T18:14:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T23:14:14","slug":"expect-the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/20\/expect-the-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect the Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Documents can surprise you and that&#8217;s one reason why locating as many things as possible is good for your research. I thought this would be a typical mortgage when I saw it in the land records index for Hancock County, Illinois. Instead of a fixed series of payments, the 1869 document stated that the son was to pay the parents a fixed annual amount until they died and to take care of them until their death as well. Not quite your typical mortgage.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/interest-paymetns-trautvetter-mortgage.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4869\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4869\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/interest-paymetns-trautvetter-mortgage.jpg\" alt=\"interest-paymetns-trautvetter-mortgage\" width=\"655\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/interest-paymetns-trautvetter-mortgage.jpg 655w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/interest-paymetns-trautvetter-mortgage-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/interest-paymetns-trautvetter-mortgage-624x381.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents can surprise you and that&#8217;s one reason why locating as many things as possible is good for your research. I thought this would be a typical mortgage when I saw it in the land records index for Hancock County, Illinois. Instead of a fixed series of payments, the 1869 document stated that the son [&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-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}