{"id":4652,"date":"2017-05-07T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2019-01-24T01:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T01:55:18","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-johann-ufkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: Johann Ufkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johann Hinrichs Frederichs Ufkes was born in 1838 in Holtrop\/Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany, and died in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1924. That is where he married Noentje Lena Grass in 1874.<\/p>\n<p>From Johann, I learned the following lessons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not everyone completes their homestead claim. Johann&#8217;s incomplete claim was filed in Franklin County, Nebraska, where probably stayed for less than a year.<\/li>\n<li>Even well-researched families have gaps. Despite quite a bit of knowledge of his life, no one ever knew that he owned and operated a mill for a few years after marriage.<\/li>\n<li>Pictures may appear &#8220;years&#8221; after you have been researching. Ths one in this post was located after I had been search for information on Johann for over thirty years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\">My ancestor table<\/a> can be viewed on my site. Johann is my great-great-grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johann Hinrichs Frederichs Ufkes was born in 1838 in Holtrop\/Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany, and died in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1924. That is where he married Noentje Lena Grass in 1874. From Johann, I learned the following lessons: Not everyone completes their homestead claim. Johann&#8217;s incomplete claim was filed in Franklin County, Nebraska, where probably stayed [&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":[311,243],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestral-clues-and-lessons","tag-johann-frederichs-hinrichs-ufkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","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=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}