{"id":7258,"date":"2018-07-18T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7258"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:37:38","slug":"why-could-the-sheriff-not-find-great-grandma-fannie-neill-in-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7258","title":{"rendered":"Why Could the Sheriff Not Find Great-Grandma Fannie Neill in 1908?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[this was posted on our old blog and we&#8217;ve decided to post it here for those who missed it&#8211;gotta love court records]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 10 February 1908, Carl Bertschi, Hancock County Sheriff went to the farm of Charles and Fannie Neill in Walker Township.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was that Fannie was no where to be found and the summons was left with her husband Charles. \u00a0The sheriff made no comment about Fannie&#8217;s whereabouts, just that she could not be found in Hancock County.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7259\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fannie-neill-cant-be-found-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fannie-neill-cant-be-found-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fannie-neill-cant-be-found-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fannie-neill-cant-be-found.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><br \/>\nWhere was Fannie Neill in February of 1908? Was she missing? Why didn&#8217;t she come to the door?<\/p>\n<p>Do you always look at the summons that appear in the court records you utilize? Are there clues or stories hiding in those seemingly innocuous slips of paper?<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned. There&#8217;s more to this story&#8230;I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[this was posted on our old blog and we&#8217;ve decided to post it here for those who missed it&#8211;gotta love court records] On 10 February 1908, Carl Bertschi, Hancock County Sheriff went to the farm of Charles and Fannie Neill in Walker Township. The problem was that Fannie was no where to be found and [&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":[359],"class_list":["post-7258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-where-was-fannie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258","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=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}