{"id":6848,"date":"2018-05-09T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T11:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T11:51:01","slug":"where-did-they-get-hitched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6848","title":{"rendered":"Where Did They Get Hitched?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much on writing prompts, but since I just located the &#8220;missing&#8221; marriage information on my last set of great-great-grandparents, I thought I&#8217;d look at the locations of where my parents through my great-great-grandparents were married, just to see what patterns and trends there were.<\/p>\n<p>My parents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My grandparents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keithsburg, Mercer County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My great-grandparents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breckenridge, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>near Basco, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My great-great-grandparents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St. John, New Brunswick, Canada<\/li>\n<li>Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Soap Creek Township, Davis County, Iowa<\/li>\n<li>near Basco, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Golden, Adams County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Coatsburg, Adams County, Illinois<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stop there&#8211;I don&#8217;t have all my third great-grandparents marriage records. Interestingly enough, both sets of my grandparents went &#8220;away&#8221; to get married. Everyone else pretty much got married exactly where they were living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much on writing prompts, but since I just located the &#8220;missing&#8221; marriage information on my last set of great-great-grandparents, I thought I&#8217;d look at the locations of where my parents through my great-great-grandparents were married, just to see what patterns and trends there were. My parents: Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois My grandparents Keithsburg, [&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-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}