{"id":5621,"date":"2017-10-24T21:07:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2017-10-24T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T21:07:44","slug":"looking-at-adjacent-records-for-your-ancestors-paper-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5621","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Adjacent Records for Your Ancestor&#8217;s Paper Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you find a census record, naturalization record, church record, land record, or any record for your ancestor, it&#8217;s good to look at records\/entries before and after the one you really want. There are several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>census records&#8211;<\/em>list neighbors&#8211;unless they are alphabetical<\/li>\n<li><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1011 alignright\" style=\"font-style: normal;\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bookforbarbara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bookforbarbara.jpg 151w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bookforbarbara-115x300.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/>tax records<\/em>&#8211;list neighbors&#8211;unless they are alphabetical<\/li>\n<li><em>church record<\/em>s&#8211;compare the one you want to others to see if it&#8217;s &#8220;unique&#8221; or not and to get clues to reading handwriting if record is not in your native language<\/li>\n<li><em>naturalization records<\/em>&#8211;who naturalized on the same day as your ancestor<\/li>\n<li><em>land records<\/em>&#8211;people may bring in more than one deed at a time to record<\/li>\n<li><em>marriage applications<\/em>&#8211;did another couple go with your ancestor to get a license<\/li>\n<li><em>any record<\/em>&#8211;see how the clerk filled out similar records to assist in reading and interpreting the one you really want<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Never look at a record in isolation. Those paper neighbors to your ancestor (as I like to call them) can hold clues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you find a census record, naturalization record, church record, land record, or any record for your ancestor, it&#8217;s good to look at records\/entries before and after the one you really want. There are several reasons: census records&#8211;list neighbors&#8211;unless they are alphabetical tax records&#8211;list neighbors&#8211;unless they are alphabetical church records&#8211;compare the one you want to [&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-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","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=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}