{"id":8712,"date":"2018-07-25T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8712"},"modified":"2018-07-25T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:35:42","slug":"the-census-helped-me-read-a-court-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/the-census-helped-me-read-a-court-record\/","title":{"rendered":"The Census Helped me Read a Court Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the deputy clerk was not crucial to my research, but a quick search of the 1880 census gave me his likely name&#8211;just using Wood* as a search term on the first name.\u00a0 J. Woods Champion was a clerk living in Rice County, Minnesota, in 1880 and is likely the man who signed this document. The name of the clerk was not crucial to my research, but a five second search located his probable name.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t spend forever on searches like these, but sometimes a quick search in other online records can turn a &#8220;can&#8217;t read&#8221; into a &#8220;can figure it out.&#8221; Just make certain that the person you think it is is a logical fit.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8713\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/clerk-name-1880.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1223\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/clerk-name-1880.jpg 1223w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/clerk-name-1880-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/clerk-name-1880-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/clerk-name-1880-1024x586.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/clerk-name-1880-624x357.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1223px) 100vw, 1223px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the deputy clerk was not crucial to my research, but a quick search of the 1880 census gave me his likely name&#8211;just using Wood* as a search term on the first name.\u00a0 J. Woods Champion was a clerk living in Rice County, Minnesota, in 1880 and is likely the man who signed [&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-8712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712","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=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}