{"id":6146,"date":"2018-01-26T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T17:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2018-01-26T19:50:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:50:25","slug":"im-looking-for-hancock-counthy-illinois-and-its-in-rock-island-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6146","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Looking for Hancock Counthy, Illinois&#8211;and It&#8217;s In Rock Island County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6147\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ancestry-drop-down.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ancestry-drop-down.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ancestry-drop-down-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Add this to the list of questions I have about \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-13080235\"><em>Ancestry.com<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>why do they have clearly wrong place names in the drop-down menu for their searches?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand that in user &#8220;trees&#8221; places may entered in such ways as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hancock counthy, Illinois, Pope, Arkansas, USA<\/li>\n<li>hancock counthy, Illinois City, Rock Island, Illinois, USA<\/li>\n<li>hancock counthy, Illinois, Hyde, South Dakota, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But to put these in the drop down menu for searches of their database? Can&#8217;t you just include &#8220;standard names?&#8221; Do we need to have every messed up location someone has entered in their tree included in this list?<\/p>\n<p>Do the programmers at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-13080235\"><em>Ancestry.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0do any research?<\/p>\n<p>Some days I really wonder.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add this to the list of questions I have about \u00a0Ancestry.com: why do they have clearly wrong place names in the drop-down menu for their searches? I understand that in user &#8220;trees&#8221; places may entered in such ways as: hancock counthy, Illinois, Pope, Arkansas, USA hancock counthy, Illinois City, Rock Island, Illinois, USA hancock counthy, [&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-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","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=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}