{"id":1937,"date":"2016-01-27T21:11:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2016-01-27T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:11:53","slug":"ancestry-com-updates-elca-database-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry.com Updates ELCA Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1938\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1938\" class=\"wp-image-1938 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/gothenburg-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"gothenburg\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/gothenburg-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/gothenburg.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the baptismal entry for Fokke F Tammen, born in 1885 in Dawson County, Nebraska.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There may just be the addition of missing images here, but\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>has updated\u00a0the <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>). I noted a few images that were unavailable the last time I checked, but my use of the database is limited to congregations in western Illinois and parts of Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that names of sponsors and witnesses are not indexed and that in some cases the German script was difficult to read.<\/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>There may just be the addition of missing images here, but\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0has updated\u00a0the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). I noted a few images that were unavailable the last time I checked, but my use of the database is limited to congregations in western Illinois and parts of Nebraska. Remember that names of sponsors and witnesses [&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],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}