{"id":5519,"date":"2016-09-26T19:36:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T00:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2020-04-13T08:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:25:27","slug":"do-you-know-what-sections-border-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/26\/do-you-know-what-sections-border-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know What Sections Border What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your relatives were farmers who owned their own land, do you know how the sections within a township are numbered? Knowing where your relative&#8217;s property fits in relationship to others can help you know how close they really live. Not all bordering sections have adjacent numbers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/glorecords.blm.gov\/reference\/manuals\/GLO_primer.pdf\">GLO Primer<\/a> will give you a broad overview.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sections.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5520\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sections.jpg\" alt=\"sections\" width=\"479\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sections.jpg 479w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sections-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sections-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your relatives were farmers who owned their own land, do you know how the sections within a township are numbered? Knowing where your relative&#8217;s property fits in relationship to others can help you know how close they really live. Not all bordering sections have adjacent numbers. The GLO Primer will give you a broad [&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-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","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=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}