{"id":1002,"date":"2015-09-03T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2015-09-03T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:16:05","slug":"ancestry-com-updates-elca-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry.com Updates ELCA Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60722\">Ancestry.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>indicated that their database of microfilmed materials from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60722\">ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America<\/a>) has been updated. \u00a0These announcements on their main page are never very specific. A few months ago I reported to them that records were missing for the Immanuel Lutheran Church near Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Those are some of the records added. There may be more originally\u00a0missing images that have been added, but users will have to check their own specific areas of interest. Remember when using any database of images at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> for the first time, use the &#8220;viewer strip&#8221; to <strong>manually page through images to make certain that nothing is missing<\/strong>. That&#8217;s how I realized that originally the ELCA database at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>had some missing images. It&#8217;s not sufficient to search the index, not find what you are looking for and quit.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve got my great-grandmother Ufkes&#8217; 1895 baptism from that church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/janssen-trientje-1895.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1003\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/janssen-trientje-1895.jpg\" alt=\"janssen-trientje-1895\" width=\"830\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/janssen-trientje-1895.jpg 830w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/janssen-trientje-1895-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Reminder<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>You can browse the list at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60722\">Ancestry.com<\/a><\/em>\u00a0or view a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/archives\/files\/2013\/06\/ELCAmicrofilms2013.pdf\">PDF file on the ELCA website<\/a>\u00a0(all <em>may not be<\/em> on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60722\">Ancestry.com<\/a>)<\/em>\u00a0. The PDF file is easier to use, but make certain and check the drop down list at<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60722\">Ancestry.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>to make certain the congregations of interest are included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com\u00a0indicated that their database of microfilmed materials from the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) has been updated. \u00a0These announcements on their main page are never very specific. A few months ago I reported to them that records were missing for the Immanuel Lutheran Church near Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois. Those are some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,128],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elca","tag-trientje-janssen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}