{"id":8366,"date":"2018-05-14T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:38:03","slug":"hunting-for-your-ancestors-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/hunting-for-your-ancestors-employer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting for Your Ancestor&#8217;s Employer"},"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. Perform a Google search for the name of the business, search old newspapers, and search local and regional histories as well, many of which have been digitized at\u00a0<i>GoogleBooks<\/i>\u00a0(http:\/\/books.google.com) or\u00a0<i>Archive.org\u00a0<\/i>(http:\/\/www.archive.org).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8367\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/directory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/directory.jpg 900w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/directory-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/directory-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/directory-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Join me for my upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=6826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online AncestryDNA class.<\/a><\/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. Perform a Google search for the name of the business, search old newspapers, and search local and regional histories as [&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-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","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=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}