{"id":6900,"date":"2017-07-05T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2017-07-05T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:57:43","slug":"read-the-back-and-not-just-for-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/05\/read-the-back-and-not-just-for-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Back and not Just for Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always read the back of everything. There may be clues there&#8211;sometimes ones that are difficult to discern.<br \/>\nThe back flap of this service record envelope for John Ehmen (CO. I 119th Illinois Infantry, US Civil War) indicated a headstone had been issued. on 9 July 1937. The QMG stands for Quarter Master General. The OMH?<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6901\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/readbackflap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/readbackflap.jpg 323w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/readbackflap-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>\u00a0is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank.\u00a0<\/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 noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always read the back of everything. There may be clues there&#8211;sometimes ones that are difficult to discern. The back flap of this service record envelope for John Ehmen (CO. I 119th Illinois Infantry, US Civil War) indicated a headstone had been issued. on 9 July 1937. The QMG stands for Quarter Master General. The OMH? [&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-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}