{"id":8119,"date":"2018-03-15T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8119"},"modified":"2019-05-03T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:50:17","slug":"educational-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/15\/educational-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those with US ancestors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have you looked at the amount of schooling your relatives indicated they had in the 1940 census? Just to see if my thoughts were correct, I looked up the claimed educational level of all my living ancestors at the time of the 1940 census. Anna Habben&#8217;s 4th grade education coincides closely with the family&#8217;s immigration to the United States from Germany. The others were about where I thought they would be based upon family tradition. All of mine were living in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1940.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Neill (great-grandfather-St. Albans Twp.)&#8211;8th grade.<\/li>\n<li>Fannie Neill \u00a0(great-grandmother-St. Albans Twp.)&#8211;8th grade.<\/li>\n<li>Fred Ufkes (great-grandfather-Bear Creek Twp.)-8th grade.<\/li>\n<li>Tena Ufkes (great-grandmother-Bear Creek Twp.)-6th grade.<\/li>\n<li>John Ufkes (grandfather-Bear Creek Twp.)-4 years of high school.<\/li>\n<li>Mimka Habben (great-grandfather, Prairie Twp.)-8th grade.<\/li>\n<li>Tjode Habben (great-grandmother, Prairie Twp.)-8th grade.<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy Habben (grandmother, Prairie Twp.) 3 years of high school (she graduated the 4th year the next year).<\/li>\n<li>Cecil Neill (grandfather, Prairie Twp.)-8th grade.<\/li>\n<li>Ida Neill (grandmother, Prairie Twp.)-8th grade.<\/li>\n<li>Anna Habben (great-great-grandmother, village of Elvaston, Prairie Twp)-4th grade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those with US ancestors&#8230; Have you looked at the amount of schooling your relatives indicated they had in the 1940 census? Just to see if my thoughts were correct, I looked up the claimed educational level of all my living ancestors at the time of the 1940 census. Anna Habben&#8217;s 4th grade education coincides [&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-8119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119","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=8119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}