{"id":878,"date":"2015-08-20T04:17:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T04:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2015-08-20T04:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T04:17:56","slug":"a-1949-cattle-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"A 1949 Cattle Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us with rural ancestors sometimes don&#8217;t think to use publications other than newspapers to find references to our relatives. While this item from 1949 is not a &#8220;major find,&#8221; it was an interesting discovery. My grandfather is listed as consigning a bull to a sale of the Lamoine Valley Angus Breeder&#8217;s Association.<\/p>\n<p>Had I not already known it, the reference would have confirmed my grandfather was alive in 1949 (which I already knew). It would not be evidence that he was alive on the date of publication for the magazine or the date of the sale.<\/p>\n<p>His residence was given as well. This item has been digitized in the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/idnc.library.illinois.edu\/\">Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1947_cecil_neill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-879\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1947_cecil_neill-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"1947_cecil_neill\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1947_cecil_neill-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/1947_cecil_neill.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us with rural ancestors sometimes don&#8217;t think to use publications other than newspapers to find references to our relatives. While this item from 1949 is not a &#8220;major find,&#8221; it was an interesting discovery. My grandfather is listed as consigning a bull to a sale of the Lamoine Valley Angus Breeder&#8217;s Association. Had [&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":[115],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cecil-neill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}