{"id":5107,"date":"2016-07-18T12:34:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2016-07-18T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:34:28","slug":"my-neighbors-now-were-probably-my-neighbors-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/18\/my-neighbors-now-were-probably-my-neighbors-then\/","title":{"rendered":"My Neighbors Now Were Probably My Neighbors Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-1850 United States census records, which frequently only list a county of residence, can be a challenge when the names are spelled wrong and the writing is difficult to read. If you can&#8217;t find you person in 1830, try searching for his 1820 and 1830 neighbors in 1840 and then looking closely in the vicinity of that name (at least a few pages befor and after). You may find the person of interest. <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/neighbors-hard-to-see.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5108\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/neighbors-hard-to-see.jpg\" alt=\"neighbors-hard-to-see\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/neighbors-hard-to-see.jpg 500w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/neighbors-hard-to-see-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-1850 United States census records, which frequently only list a county of residence, can be a challenge when the names are spelled wrong and the writing is difficult to read. If you can&#8217;t find you person in 1830, try searching for his 1820 and 1830 neighbors in 1840 and then looking closely in the vicinity [&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-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","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=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}