{"id":5082,"date":"2016-07-14T17:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2016-07-14T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:28:55","slug":"how-far-down-the-line-do-you-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/14\/how-far-down-the-line-do-you-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far Down the Line Do You Talk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent family reunion, a relative (technically a second cousin of my father) told me how in the 1930s her mother had lived with my great-grandparents when she attended high school because my great-grandparents lived in town.<\/p>\n<p>It never hurts to talk to the more distant relatives. Sometimes chatting will bring up more stories than specific questions.<\/p>\n<p>This was also a reminder that times and transportation were different. The cousin lived several miles from &#8220;town,&#8221; a village of maybe two hundred people, and could not afford a car. Even though town was more of a tiny village\u00a0and the distance was small by modern standards, it would have been difficult to walk daily in the Depression era&#8211;especially in winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent family reunion, a relative (technically a second cousin of my father) told me how in the 1930s her mother had lived with my great-grandparents when she attended high school because my great-grandparents lived in town. It never hurts to talk to the more distant relatives. Sometimes chatting will bring up more stories [&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-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","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=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}