{"id":6720,"date":"2017-05-31T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2017-05-31T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:55:17","slug":"what-location-did-they-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/31\/what-location-did-they-use\/","title":{"rendered":"What Location Did They Use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Locations can cause all sorts of research difficulty, especially when an indexer or database creator uses a location that&#8217;s not quite the &#8220;correct&#8221; one or at least not the one the locals know.<\/p>\n<p>Several of my ancestors attended a Lutheran church a mile from where my grandparents lived in Hancock County, Illinois. It was near the town of Basco and locals referred to it as the &#8220;Basco church&#8221; to distinguish it from the Lutheran church in the county seat of Carthage a few miles away.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>included the records of this church in their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60722\">U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940<\/a>,&#8221; they used Carthage as the location, not Basco. I never thought of the church as being in Carthage&#8211;largely because it is not.<\/p>\n<p>When looking for any place rural, consider that an indexer or database creator may have used a different larger town as the location.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locations can cause all sorts of research difficulty, especially when an indexer or database creator uses a location that&#8217;s not quite the &#8220;correct&#8221; one or at least not the one the locals know. Several of my ancestors attended a Lutheran church a mile from where my grandparents lived in Hancock County, Illinois. It was near [&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-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","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=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}