{"id":7038,"date":"2018-05-30T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2018-05-30T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:58:52","slug":"can-you-read-that-last-name-in-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7038","title":{"rendered":"Can You Read That Last Name in 1870?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This partial census entry comes from the 1870 census for Adams County, Illinois&#8211;Northeast Township.<\/p>\n<p>This family was originally located through manual census searching. The last name was a rendition that was new to me. The first names are actually pretty spot on. That is ironic considering how the last name was rendered.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas on the last name of the head of household? Regular readers of my blog will probably recognize the last name, but try to pretend you&#8217;ve never read anything about these people anywhere else. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7039 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1870_northeast_adams_county_il.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1870_northeast_adams_county_il.jpg 749w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1870_northeast_adams_county_il-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spellings like this are a good reminder that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sometimes you have to perform manual searches<\/li>\n<li>searches based on first names can be successful&#8211;if the names are not too common and the residence is reasonably known<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This partial census entry comes from the 1870 census for Adams County, Illinois&#8211;Northeast Township. This family was originally located through manual census searching. The last name was a rendition that was new to me. The first names are actually pretty spot on. That is ironic considering how the last name was rendered. Any ideas on [&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-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","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=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}