{"id":7303,"date":"2017-10-03T12:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7303"},"modified":"2017-10-03T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:45:58","slug":"directories-in-the-back-of-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/directories-in-the-back-of-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"Directories in the Back of Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7305\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/silo1-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/silo1-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/silo1.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7304\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/silo2-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/silo2-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/silo2.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/>A residential directory may contain more than a directory of residents with addresses. Some directories have specific directories after the main residential listing. Those &#8220;directories in the back&#8221; may contain additional clues about someone you are researching. This 1918 Prairie Farmer&#8217;s Directory for Hancock County, Illinois, contained several additional directories, including ones for various breeders of cattle and chickens, tractor owners, automobile owners, and silo owners.<\/p>\n<p>The directory contained an unexpected reference to a relative who was living in a different county at the time. His mention in the &#8220;Silo Owner&#8217;s Directory&#8221; may indicate he still owned property in the area even though he did not live there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A residential directory may contain more than a directory of residents with addresses. Some directories have specific directories after the main residential listing. Those &#8220;directories in the back&#8221; may contain additional clues about someone you are researching. This 1918 Prairie Farmer&#8217;s Directory for Hancock County, Illinois, contained several additional directories, including ones for various breeders [&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-7303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303","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=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}