{"id":657,"date":"2015-07-27T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2015-07-27T00:15:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:15:56","slug":"a-1942-mortgage-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"A 1942 Mortgage that Wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned affidavits from land records before, but this one from 1942 is a real gem. James Edward Rampley documents three generations of ownership of the farm he owned, going back to his grandfather, James Rampley. Death dates are included along with relationships and additional family information.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain why this is recorded with the mortgages, but it is.<\/p>\n<p>And that makes another point, check every book. If I had ignored the mortgage records, I would never have located this gem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rampley-affidavit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-658 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rampley-affidavit-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"rampley-affidavit\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rampley-affidavit-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/rampley-affidavit.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This affidavit was analyzed in an earlier issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casefileclues.com\">Casefile Clues<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned affidavits from land records before, but this one from 1942 is a real gem. James Edward Rampley documents three generations of ownership of the farm he owned, going back to his grandfather, James Rampley. Death dates are included along with relationships and additional family information. I&#8217;m not certain why this is recorded with [&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":[88,89,90],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-james-edward-rampley","tag-james-rampley-1803","tag-riley-rampley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}