{"id":6249,"date":"2017-03-02T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:18:01","slug":"make-a-list-to-regularly-not-obsessively-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/02\/make-a-list-to-regularly-not-obsessively-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a List to Regularly (not Obsessively) Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several free websites that periodically update their available items.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6250 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"string-finger-remember\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/string-finger-remember.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a> Make a list of these sites and what content you are looking for so that you can periodically check for updates. For me those sites include the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lva.virginia.gov\/chancery\/?_ga=1.253487552.814791139.1488469885\"><em>Virginia Memory Collection<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s Chancery Court Records\u00a0(Amherst County, where are you?) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\">newspapers at the\u00a0<em>American Memory Collection<\/em><\/a> at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Consider including locations and people of interest so you don&#8217;t overlook anyone when the content does come online. Many of the free sites don&#8217;t put out press releases&#8211;they just update when they update.<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank. <\/em>Try their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.genealogybank.com\/b.aspx?id=9378&amp;mm=3\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several free websites that periodically update their available items. Make a list of these sites and what content you are looking for so that you can periodically check for updates. For me those sites include the\u00a0Virginia Memory Collection&#8216;s Chancery Court Records\u00a0(Amherst County, where are you?) and the newspapers at the\u00a0American Memory Collection at [&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-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}