{"id":7576,"date":"2017-11-25T08:33:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T14:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7576"},"modified":"2017-11-25T08:33:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T14:33:42","slug":"how-much-local-geography-do-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/25\/how-much-local-geography-do-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Local Geography Do You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6102\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/georgia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/georgia.jpg 474w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/georgia-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>Are you aware of the local geography where your ancestor lived? Having access to maps is a great help, but having a certain amount of information &#8220;in your head&#8221; can save time.<\/p>\n<p>For your city ancestors do you know the &#8220;name of the neighborhood&#8221; (if there was one)? Do you know names of nearby neighborhoods and towns? How close did your family live to the line that divided one city from another?<\/p>\n<p>For rural ancestors the same thing applies? What were the names of adjacent townships? How close were they to the county line? Did they live in a part of the county that had a nickname (perhaps based upon where most residents were originally from)?<\/p>\n<p>Failing to know some local geography may cause you to look in the wrong place for your relative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you aware of the local geography where your ancestor lived? Having access to maps is a great help, but having a certain amount of information &#8220;in your head&#8221; can save time. For your city ancestors do you know the &#8220;name of the neighborhood&#8221; (if there was one)? Do you know names of nearby neighborhoods [&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-7576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576","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=7576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}