{"id":1792,"date":"2016-01-07T05:13:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2016-01-13T22:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T22:34:17","slug":"an-ebay-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"An Ebay Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jurors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1793 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jurors.jpg\" alt=\"jurors\" width=\"634\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jurors.jpg 634w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jurors-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first I&#8217;ve purchased something on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&amp;pub=5575075447&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5337446131&amp;customid=&amp;icep_uq=genealogy+postcards&amp;icep_sellerId=&amp;icep_ex_kw=&amp;icep_sortBy=12&amp;icep_catId=&amp;icep_minPrice=&amp;icep_maxPrice=&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\">Ebay<\/a>\u00a0 with the intention of not keeping it: A 1914 picture of the Hancock County, Illinois, grand jurors.<\/p>\n<p>I often search for Hancock County items with the hope of stumbling across something directly related to one of my many families there. I&#8217;ve posted some of the items I have purchased, mainly postcards. This was an item that I could not pass up and one that I wanted to see somewhere that it would be preserved.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I&#8217;m not remotely related to any of the men in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>However, I decided to purchase the picture and donate it to the Hancock County Historical Society in Carthage, Illinois. As we&#8217;ve suggested in previous postings, I asked first if they would be interested in such a donation before I made the purchase. After all, I have enough items to worry about that are related to my own family without acquiring ones that are not.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes a person just hates to let something slip away.<\/p>\n<p>Note: <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1814\">update has been posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first I&#8217;ve purchased something on\u00a0Ebay\u00a0 with the intention of not keeping it: A 1914 picture of the Hancock County, Illinois, grand jurors. I often search for Hancock County items with the hope of stumbling across something directly related to one of my many families there. I&#8217;ve posted some of the items I [&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":[149],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ebay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}