{"id":8014,"date":"2018-02-22T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:35:12","slug":"googlebook-that-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/googlebook-that-place\/","title":{"rendered":"GoogleBook that Place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Civil War pension indicated the soldier was born in Duncansville, Kentucky.\u00a0 As I suspected it was not on a modern map. There are several ways to locate a place name that no longer exists&#8211;one way is to search for it on\u00a0<em>GoogleBooks<\/em> where old books have been digitized are full-text searchable.<\/p>\n<p>An 1889 reference to the change in the Mercer-Washington County Kentucky line mentioned Duncansville. That gave me a clue as to it&#8217;s location.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8015\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/duncansville-kentucky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/duncansville-kentucky.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/duncansville-kentucky-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/duncansville-kentucky-624x408.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Civil War pension indicated the soldier was born in Duncansville, Kentucky.\u00a0 As I suspected it was not on a modern map. There are several ways to locate a place name that no longer exists&#8211;one way is to search for it on\u00a0GoogleBooks where old books have been digitized are full-text searchable. An 1889 reference to [&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-8014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","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=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}