{"id":5264,"date":"2016-08-18T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2016-08-18T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:12:09","slug":"you-never-know-until-you-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/18\/you-never-know-until-you-look\/","title":{"rendered":"You Never Know Until You Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One never knows what a file will contain until one looks at it.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chidlren-civilwarpension.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5265 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chidlren-civilwarpension-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"chidlren-civilwarpension\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chidlren-civilwarpension-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chidlren-civilwarpension-624x590.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chidlren-civilwarpension.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Civil War pension file for William Lake of Chariton County, Missouri, contains the names and dates of birth for all his children. Many files either don&#8217;t contain this list or the pensioner said &#8220;don&#8217;t know&#8221; or &#8220;records burned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lake&#8217;s file also contains the names of his parents and siblings&#8211;and a transcription of their 1860 census enumeration. Those items are not typical<\/p>\n<p>You never know until you look.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3117\">reason behind this paperwork is discussed in a recent\u00a0<em>Rootdig<\/em> post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One never knows what a file will contain until one looks at it.\u00a0 The Civil War pension file for William Lake of Chariton County, Missouri, contains the names and dates of birth for all his children. Many files either don&#8217;t contain this list or the pensioner said &#8220;don&#8217;t know&#8221; or &#8220;records burned.&#8221; Lake&#8217;s file also [&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-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","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=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}