{"id":5562,"date":"2017-10-11T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2017-10-11T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:42:56","slug":"a-bottle-of-pop-a-candy-bar-and-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5562","title":{"rendered":"A Bottle of Pop, A Candy Bar, and $5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5563\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-neills-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-neills-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-neills-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-neills.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wanted something personal to give my daughter when she recently got married, so I came up with an idea that had a slight genealogy bent.<\/p>\n<p>She and the fiance received two individually wrapped bottles of pop and candy bars along with a note that I wrote about my paternal grandparents and how they split a bottle of pop and a candy bar after they eloped. I&#8217;ve been told that one bottle of pop and candy bar is waiting for them to share on their first anniversary. I also included in the note how anxious my grandmother was for my daughter to arrive as she was the first great-grandchild. The items were wrapped a little bit obsessively, but that was part of the fun.<\/p>\n<p>Another envelope had money in it&#8211;entirely in $5 bills. My maternal grandmother had told me several times how her Grandmother had given her $5 as a wedding gift in 1941. That story was used for the second note along with a little reminder about how &#8220;every little bit helps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5564\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-habbens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-habbens.jpg 829w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-habbens-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-habbens-768x1174.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/letter-to-sarah-habbens-670x1024.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take pictures of the notes. Fortunately my daughter was willing to share them with me after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted something personal to give my daughter when she recently got married, so I came up with an idea that had a slight genealogy bent. She and the fiance received two individually wrapped bottles of pop and candy bars along with a note that I wrote about my paternal grandparents and how they split [&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-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","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=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}