{"id":7551,"date":"2017-11-21T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2017-11-21T15:36:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:36:38","slug":"those-old-employers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/21\/those-old-employers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Old Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To learn more about your ancestor&#8217;s employer as given in a city directory, search the rest of the city directory as it may include advertisements or list the employer in a list of area businesses. Consider performing a Google search for the name of the business and search local and regional histories as well, many of which have been digitized at\u00a0<i>Google Books<\/i>\u00a0(http:\/\/books.google.com) or\u00a0<i>Archive.org\u00a0<\/i>(http:\/\/www.archive.org). Old newspapers may also provide more information on the business in question.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7555\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/job-directory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/job-directory.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/job-directory-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/job-directory-624x275.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day <\/em>is proudly sponsored by<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1711GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1711GT\">their latest offer<\/a> for our fans and readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To learn more about your ancestor&#8217;s employer as given in a city directory, search the rest of the city directory as it may include advertisements or list the employer in a list of area businesses. Consider performing a Google search for the name of the business and search local and regional histories as well, many [&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-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","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=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}