{"id":3033,"date":"2016-07-21T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2016-07-21T22:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T22:04:18","slug":"getting-back-to-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back to Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having it for some time, I&#8217;m finally starting to read\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0931271908\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0931271908&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;linkId=8b1350a094d8591d8bd72338a4d6a7d5\">Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gentipoftheda-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0931271908\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>. My immediate homesteaders were married couples in Nebraska in the 1880s. Hensley&#8217;s book focuses on slightly later claims from slightly further west (for reasons she mentions clearly in the introduction). I have two female relatives that started homestead claims as single women in Nebraska during the 1880 time period (one who was in her sixties and one who was in her early twenties). My relatives claims were made by single women (I think) because they were trying to claim as much property as possible&#8211;not because the women were living a distance from family and completely on their own. The women profiled in Hensley&#8217;s book were, for the most part on their own. The transcriptions of their letters makes for an informative and interesting read&#8211;even if your people did not homestead.<\/p>\n<p>Based upon a Facebook post by Elizabeth Shown Mills (author of <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1H8sTPT\"><em>Evidence Explained<\/em><\/a>), I&#8217;ve ordered <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0803268491\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0803268491&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;linkId=42705f185514757ec593891b0eea49aa\">Indian Slavery in Colonial America<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gentipoftheda-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0803268491\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>. There&#8217;s nothing like jumping time periods, but it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve really looked at my pre-American Revolution families and I thought this might be an interesting read.<\/p>\n<p>Read. There&#8217;s more than Facebook posts out there that can give you background to assist you with your genealogical research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having it for some time, I&#8217;m finally starting to read\u00a0Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West. My immediate homesteaders were married couples in Nebraska in the 1880s. Hensley&#8217;s book focuses on slightly later claims from slightly further west (for reasons she mentions clearly in the introduction). I have two female relatives that started homestead [&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-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","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=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}