{"id":6441,"date":"2017-04-10T15:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T20:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:37:23","slug":"do-you-really-have-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/10\/do-you-really-have-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Really Have It All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6442\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6442\" class=\"wp-image-6442\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fold3_Page_1-1024x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fold3_Page_1-1024x625.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fold3_Page_1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fold3_Page_1-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fold3_Page_1-624x381.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fold3_Page_1.jpg 1835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As Jade correctly points out in the comments this is not from the pension file. These index cards are online. The pension files are at the National Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Years ago I received copies from the National Archives of selected documents from the Civil War pension file for my relative, Emmar Osenbaugh. The file was rather large and, since I&#8217;m somewhat &#8220;stuck&#8221; on certain parts of her life (and that of her parents), I decided to obtain a copy of the entire pension file.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an abstract of a record or selected documents is it possible that there are clues in those un-abstracted pieces of information or un-selected documents? Sometimes what seems trivial to someone unfamiliar with the family is not trivial at all.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/em> (added after Jade&#8217;s comment)<\/p>\n<p>The cards referenced in Jade&#8217;s comment are located online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1832324?collectionNameFilter=false\">United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933<\/a>&#8221; on\u00a0<em>FamilySearch.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I received copies from the National Archives of selected documents from the Civil War pension file for my relative, Emmar Osenbaugh. The file was rather large and, since I&#8217;m somewhat &#8220;stuck&#8221; on certain parts of her life (and that of her parents), I decided to obtain a copy of the entire pension file. [&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-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","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=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}