{"id":8871,"date":"2018-09-03T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8871"},"modified":"2018-09-03T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:57:01","slug":"what-type-of-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/what-type-of-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"What Type of Farmer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record may indicate your relative is a farmer, but is there a little more detail that the word &#8220;farmer?&#8221; Is he a:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>farm laborer&#8211;working from one job to another whenever he can (a day laborer)?<\/li>\n<li>farm renter?<\/li>\n<li>farmer who owns his own property?<\/li>\n<li>a farm owner who rents out his property and lives off the rental income?<\/li>\n<li>a hired man who regularly works for the same family?<\/li>\n<li>a farmer who also worked an off-farm job?<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These distinctions are important in understanding your relative&#8217;s records and life. Some renters move from farm to farm&#8211;others stay on the same property for decades. Some owner\/operators move regularly as well.<\/p>\n<p>One word may not really describe your relative&#8217;s occupation.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about research, methods, and sources in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Casefile Clues<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record may indicate your relative is a farmer, but is there a little more detail that the word &#8220;farmer?&#8221; Is he a: farm laborer&#8211;working from one job to another whenever he can (a day laborer)? farm renter? farmer who owns his own property? a farm owner who rents out his property and lives off [&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-8871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871","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=8871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}