{"id":3717,"date":"2016-12-06T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2016-12-06T04:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T04:23:00","slug":"ancestry-coms-shoebox-in-the-probate-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3717","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry.com’s Shoebox in the Probate Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times when I really wonder just how many genealogists are really involved in the construction of the website interface at Ancestry.com. <\/em><\/p>\n

This is one of those times.<\/p>\n

I was usingAncestry.com<\/em>‘s “Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999<\/a>” to look at the\u00a01885-era Adams County, Illinois, probate file for Heinrich Mennen Aden. I was hoping to find something on his brother Ehme Mennen Aden. No such luck. I did make a find. While looking at the list of individuals who purchased property at the estate sale in 1886, I noticed the name of two ancestors of my own: Hinrich Sartorius and Ulfert Behrens.<\/p>\n

I decided to add the page to my Ancestry.com shoebox for later viewing.<\/p>\n

\"heinrich-aden-adams-county-illinois\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Upon going back later and clicking on the item in my shoebox, I had hoped that the link would take me to the specific page in Aden’s probate file that I had been on when I had saved the item to my shoebox.<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

No such luck.<\/p>\n

It took me back to the first image in Aden’s probate file.<\/p>\n

That seems somewhat illogical to me.<\/p>\n

Why can’t it take me back to the actual image in the file I was on when I saved the item to the shoebox?<\/p>\n

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Note: Hinrich Mennen Aden<\/em> (1841-1885)’s brother was Ehme Mennen Aden (1832-1915)<\/em>. Ehme was married to Reenste Focken Tammen (1826-1892). All died in Adams County, Illinois and were born in Ostfriesland, Germany. Reenste was a sister of my 3rd great-grandmother, Tjode Anna Focken (Tammen) Goldenstein.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are times when I really wonder just how many genealogists are really involved in the construction of the website interface at Ancestry.com. This is one of those times. I was usingAncestry.com‘s “Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999” to look at the\u00a01885-era Adams County, Illinois, probate file for Heinrich Mennen Aden. I was hoping to […]<\/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":[125],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com-probate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717","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=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}