{"id":1672,"date":"2015-12-19T23:49:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T23:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2015-12-19T23:49:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T23:49:59","slug":"ancestry-com-updates-yearbooks-still-cant-locate-bowen-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry.com Updates Yearbooks&#8211;Still Can&#8217;t Locate Bowen High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geography matters. Reading matters.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1674\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bowen2.jpg\" alt=\"bowen2\" width=\"308\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bowen2.jpg 308w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bowen2-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>announced an update of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1265%26path%3D\"> their yearbook collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual it is difficult to have any real clue what has been added, what&#8217;s been refined, and whether updates have been made to the index. It&#8217;s just been updated.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> still has not discovered that the yearbooks they have online are for the Bowen High School in Chicago, Illinois, not Bowen High School in Bowen, Illinois. The yearbooks online make the location fairly clear where it says &#8220;Bowen High School, Chicago, Illinois.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Disappointing for me as I wanted the yearbooks for Bowen High School in Bowen, Illinois, as that&#8217;s where my great-aunt graduated from in the late 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>But I just wish\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em> would get the locations right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bowen1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1673\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bowen1.jpg\" alt=\"bowen1\" width=\"433\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bowen1.jpg 433w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bowen1-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geography matters. Reading matters. Ancestry.com\u00a0announced an update of their yearbook collection. As usual it is difficult to have any real clue what has been added, what&#8217;s been refined, and whether updates have been made to the index. It&#8217;s just been updated. Apparently\u00a0Ancestry.com still has not discovered that the yearbooks they have online are for 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":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","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=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}