{"id":6260,"date":"2018-02-15T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T17:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2018-02-15T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T17:26:31","slug":"a-list-of-idiosyncracies-and-no-counties-in-familysearchs-1870-us-census-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6260","title":{"rendered":"A List of Idiosyncracies&#8211;and No Counties in FamilySearch&#8217;s 1870 US Census Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6261\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1870-familysearch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1870-familysearch.jpg 535w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1870-familysearch-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I need to start keeping a list.<\/p>\n<p>I wasted fifteen minutes trying to search the 1870 census at\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em> by counties and towns until I remembered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>the 1870 census at\u00a0<\/em>FamilySearch<em> does not include in the searchable database<\/em><em>any geographic information smaller than the state<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That precludes me from searching by counties, townships, etc.\u00a0 That inflates my search results with hits from the greater Chicago area&#8211;on the other side of the state from where my people live.<\/p>\n<p><em>FamilySearch<\/em> is free. I&#8217;m not being hypercritical. Just a reminder that not every database may work in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>And that I need to start keeping a list of databases I use and idiosyncrasies with those databases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to start keeping a list. I wasted fifteen minutes trying to search the 1870 census at\u00a0FamilySearch by counties and towns until I remembered: the 1870 census at\u00a0FamilySearch does not include in the searchable databaseany geographic information smaller than the state That precludes me from searching by counties, townships, etc.\u00a0 That inflates my search [&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-6260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260","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=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}