{"id":7540,"date":"2017-11-19T12:54:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T18:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2017-11-19T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T18:54:53","slug":"dont-be-chicken-look-in-the-back-of-the-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/19\/dont-be-chicken-look-in-the-back-of-the-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be Chicken&#8211;Look in the Back of the Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7541\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/goldenstein-chickens-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/goldenstein-chickens-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/goldenstein-chickens.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Residential or business directories\u00a0may contain sub-directories of specific occupations after the &#8220;main directory.&#8221; These directories may contain additional clues about your ancestor. Don&#8217;t just find your ancestor once and quit.<\/p>\n<p>There may be smaller directories in the back.<\/p>\n<p>The illustration shows a list of Silver-Laced Wyan-Dotte chicken breeders in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1918.<\/p>\n<p>Look in the back. Don&#8217;t be chicken &lt;grin&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residential or business directories\u00a0may contain sub-directories of specific occupations after the &#8220;main directory.&#8221; These directories may contain additional clues about your ancestor. Don&#8217;t just find your ancestor once and quit. There may be smaller directories in the back. The illustration shows a list of Silver-Laced Wyan-Dotte chicken breeders in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1918. Look [&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-7540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540","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=7540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}