{"id":5703,"date":"2017-11-08T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2017-11-08T19:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:58:17","slug":"trading-my-rifle-for-some-skunks-and-ferrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5703","title":{"rendered":"Trading My Rifle for Some Skunks and Ferrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>GoogleBooks\u00a0<\/em>contains a wide variety of material and one never knows what snippet of information one will run across or who it will be about. It&#8217;s not just the rich, famous, and well-heeled who appear in old published items.<\/p>\n<p>It could be your run-of-the-mill ancestor looking to trade his shotgun in 1916.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Fur News<\/em> was published monthly in Somerville, New Jersey&#8211;at least for a time. In December of 1916, Albert Cawiezell of Davenport, Iowa, was looking to trade his rifle in exchange for &#8220;star scentless skunks or ferrets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5704\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cawiezell-fur-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cawiezell-fur-news.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cawiezell-fur-news-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I never knew there was such a thing as the\u00a0<em>Fur News<\/em>. If your ancestor was involved in the fur trade during the time period it was published&#8211;he may be mentioned. He probably won&#8217;t be, but the articles, advertisements, and other information may provide you with some additional insight and may even explain a thing or two about your ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>This item tells me that there was an Albert Cawiezell living in rural Davenport, Iowa, in 1916. That may be a clue.<\/p>\n<p>Some items located in\u00a0<em>GoogleBooks<\/em> are actually trivial, some are seemingly trivial, and others are obviously significant. The problem is what what ends up being trivial or not depends on the individual research problem.<\/p>\n<p>You should include\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\">GoogleBooks<\/a><\/em> in your hunt for your ancestor. Even if he wasn&#8217;t a fur trader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoogleBooks\u00a0contains a wide variety of material and one never knows what snippet of information one will run across or who it will be about. It&#8217;s not just the rich, famous, and well-heeled who appear in old published items. It could be your run-of-the-mill ancestor looking to trade his shotgun in 1916. The\u00a0Fur News was published [&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-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","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=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}