{"id":7444,"date":"2017-11-01T13:51:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2017-11-01T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T19:02:58","slug":"1880-us-agricultural-census-land-ownership-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/1880-us-agricultural-census-land-ownership-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"1880 US Agricultural Census Land Ownership Clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1880 US agricultural census asked the farmer about his land tenure&#8211;indicating whether the farmer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>owned the land&#8211;there may have been a mortgage&#8211;&#8220;free&#8221; or &#8220;encumbered&#8221; was not asked.<\/li>\n<li>rented for &#8220;fixed money rent&#8221;&#8211;cash rent in today&#8217;s jargon.<\/li>\n<li>rented for &#8220;shares of product&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7445\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1880-owned-rented.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1880-owned-rented.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1880-owned-rented-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Could be a clue as to whether land records need to be searched.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1880 US agricultural census asked the farmer about his land tenure&#8211;indicating whether the farmer: owned the land&#8211;there may have been a mortgage&#8211;&#8220;free&#8221; or &#8220;encumbered&#8221; was not asked. rented for &#8220;fixed money rent&#8221;&#8211;cash rent in today&#8217;s jargon. rented for &#8220;shares of product&#8221; Could be a clue as to whether land records need to be searched. [&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-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","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=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}