{"id":6464,"date":"2017-04-15T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6464"},"modified":"2017-04-15T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T15:05:12","slug":"lessons-from-a-newly-discovered-abraham-lincoln-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/15\/lessons-from-a-newly-discovered-abraham-lincoln-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from a Newly Discovered Abraham Lincoln Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve included part of a recently discovered letter signed by Abraham Lincoln as fodder for today&#8217;s tip which was discovered while searching unindexed records at the National Archives. The discovery reminds us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not all records have been digitized.<\/li>\n<li>Many records are unindexed.<\/li>\n<li>You never know what&#8217;s waiting to be discovered.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6466\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lincoln-letter-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lincoln-letter-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lincoln-letter-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lincoln-letter-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lincoln-letter-1-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Jonathan Deiss of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soldiersource.com\"><em>Soldiersource.com\u00a0<\/em><\/a>for making the discovery and letting us share it with readers.<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve included part of a recently discovered letter signed by Abraham Lincoln as fodder for today&#8217;s tip which was discovered while searching unindexed records at the National Archives. The discovery reminds us: Not all records have been digitized. Many records are unindexed. You never know what&#8217;s waiting to be discovered. Thanks to Jonathan Deiss of\u00a0Soldiersource.com\u00a0for [&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-6464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464","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=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}