{"id":7329,"date":"2018-08-03T03:07:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T03:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2018-08-03T03:07:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T03:07:19","slug":"did-your-relative-assign-their-land-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7329","title":{"rendered":"Did Your Relative Assign their Land Warrant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7330 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/landwarrantsold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/landwarrantsold.jpg 597w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/landwarrantsold-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/>[originally posted on our old blog in 2015]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We<\/em> often use names of associates for clues, but sometimes associates may not be as closely associated with our relatives as we would like.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this advertisement in the 1856\u00a0<i>Abbeville Banner<\/i>\u00a0while searching for something else and it got me to thinking about those land warrants I have that a relative assigned to someone instead of patenting the property themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In a few cases, the person to whom they assigned the property was clearly a relative. In other cases the assignment was not made to a known associate.<\/p>\n<p>Now maybe I should search newspapers to see if the person to whom my relative assigned a bounty land warrant advertised that they were willing to purchase such warrants. Sites such as\u00a0\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1502GT\">GenealogyBank<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>and the\u00a0<i>Chronicling America\u00a0<\/i>collection may digital images of newspapers that have ads of this type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[originally posted on our old blog in 2015] We often use names of associates for clues, but sometimes associates may not be as closely associated with our relatives as we would like. I came across this advertisement in the 1856\u00a0Abbeville Banner\u00a0while searching for something else and it got me to thinking about those land warrants [&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-7329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329","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=7329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}