{"id":2556,"date":"2016-04-16T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2016-04-16T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T21:57:17","slug":"a-postcard-from-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"A Postcard from 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I almost forgot I had this little gem.<\/p>\n<p>This postcard was written by Foche Jansen Goldenstein to B. Dirks (Bernard Dirks, father of Foche&#8217;s wife Anna) of Coatsburg, Illinois. At the time of this writing, the Goldensteins were living in Golden, Adams County, Illinois, but Foche was on a trip to Ostfriesland visiting relatives. Sometimes it&#8217;s slightly amazing that it made it to Bernard Dirks with only his village and state listed.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only thing I have in Foche&#8217;s\u00a0handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Always consider the possibility that someone kept postcards your relative wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/postcard.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2557\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2557\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/postcard-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"postcard\" width=\"750\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/postcard-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/postcard-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/postcard-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/postcard.jpg 1118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost forgot I had this little gem. This postcard was written by Foche Jansen Goldenstein to B. Dirks (Bernard Dirks, father of Foche&#8217;s wife Anna) of Coatsburg, Illinois. At the time of this writing, the Goldensteins were living in Golden, Adams County, Illinois, but Foche was on a trip to Ostfriesland visiting relatives. Sometimes [&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-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}