{"id":6934,"date":"2017-07-12T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T15:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2017-07-12T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:01:21","slug":"bugs-in-the-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/12\/bugs-in-the-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugs in the Family Tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6935\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6935\" class=\"wp-image-6935 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tree-2-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tree-2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tree-2-768x1364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tree-2-577x1024.jpg 577w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tree-2-624x1108.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tree-2.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beetles got my peach tree. Did bugs or weather send your relative into a financial tailspin?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If insects or weather could negatively effect your ancestor, it could have a financial impact. Did your ancestor only mortgage the farm once&#8211;right after a year of drought or an infestation of locusts? Did your ancestor move because there were several years of extremely uncooperative weather in a row? Newspapers and county histories may mention such events and they could be timed to documents that indicate your ancestor was under financial stress.<\/p>\n<p>In severe cases your ancestor may have moved, lost the farm, or both.<\/p>\n<p>Always keep an open mind for things outside your relative&#8217;s control that may have impacted his behavior.<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>\u00a0is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1706GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Check our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1707GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">their July\u00a0offer for \u201cTip of the Day\u201d fans<\/a>\u2013offer ends 30 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If insects or weather could negatively effect your ancestor, it could have a financial impact. Did your ancestor only mortgage the farm once&#8211;right after a year of drought or an infestation of locusts? Did your ancestor move because there were several years of extremely uncooperative weather in a row? Newspapers and county histories may mention [&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-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}