{"id":9913,"date":"2019-04-15T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2019-04-15T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:40:03","slug":"the-village-of-grosshertzogtum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/the-village-of-grosshertzogtum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Village of Grosshertzogtum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9915\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/grand-duchy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/grand-duchy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/grand-duchy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/grand-duchy-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>Geography matters. Language matters.<\/p>\n<p>The obituary of John Luft from the Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, newspaper of 24 June 1921 indicated that he was born in &#8220;Grossehertzgotum,&#8221; Hessen, Germany. It refers to the Grand Duchy of Hesse&#8211;not a specific village.\u00a0 James Beidler tells of a researcher who looked for this village for years in his\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hwhYeE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trace Your German Roots Online: A Complete Guide to German Genealogy Websites.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>All of which make the point: ask, learn, and don&#8217;t assume. It&#8217;s easy to be confused about locations in an area where you don&#8217;t know the language, where you don&#8217;t know the geography, and where you never lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geography matters. Language matters. The obituary of John Luft from the Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, newspaper of 24 June 1921 indicated that he was born in &#8220;Grossehertzgotum,&#8221; Hessen, Germany. It refers to the Grand Duchy of Hesse&#8211;not a specific village.\u00a0 James Beidler tells of a researcher who looked for this village for years in his\u00a0Trace [&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-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913","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=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}