{"id":2810,"date":"2016-05-26T07:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2016-05-26T07:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:01:52","slug":"discoveries-in-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2810","title":{"rendered":"Discoveries in Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were no big discoveries made while I was in Salt Lake City at the Family History Library. However, I did make some minor discoveries that hopefully will make for interesting blog posts as we continue through 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 12 year old who is a sponsor on a christening.<\/li>\n<li>A couple from Campbell County, Kentucky, who take their deed across the river to Cincinnati, Ohio, to have the mayor act as their notary public on the acknowledgment.<\/li>\n<li>A 1865 deed from Kentucky where a couple splits their real and personal property while not getting divorced.<\/li>\n<li>The 1921 inquest into my uncle&#8217;s death in a Kansas City, Missouri, hotel.<\/li>\n<li>A 1870-era deed in Illinois where a husband and wife apparently sell their home to their barely twenty-year old daughter.<\/li>\n<li>Clues in the potential parentage of Andrew Trask, born about 1814 in Boston.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And maybe something else I&#8217;ve already forgotten about.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the 1921 death in Kansas City, none of the discoveries is overly dramatic, but just about any record can tell us at least part of a story. There may be a few other stories lurking in things I copied that I don&#8217;t even realize are stories.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes those are the best ones.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were no big discoveries made while I was in Salt Lake City at the Family History Library. However, I did make some minor discoveries that hopefully will make for interesting blog posts as we continue through 2016: A 12 year old who is a sponsor on a christening. A couple from Campbell County, Kentucky, [&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-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","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=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}