{"id":889,"date":"2015-08-20T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2015-08-20T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:06:59","slug":"in-the-beginning-was-page-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"In the Beginning Was Page 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1955 city directory for Peoria, Illinois, is included in\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-865524-10470501-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D2469\">US City Directories 1822-1989.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0In attempting to interpret an entry from that year, I wanted to look at the front of the book where the abbreviations are usually located. The &#8220;viewer&#8221; at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> allows one to go to specific images.<\/p>\n<p>When viewing page 1, I expected to get a view of the cover of the book, the spine of the book, maybe the title page.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I got page 50. Page 50 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-10470501-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Finteractive.ancestry.com%2F2469%2F4608431%2F359463844%3Fbackurl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fsearch.ancestry.com%252fcgi-bin%252fsse.dll%253fdb%253dUSDirectories%2526gss%253dsfs28_ms_r_db%2526new%253d1%2526rank%253d1%2526gsln%253dufkes%2526gsln_x%253dNP_NN_NS%2526msrpn__ftp%253dIllinois%25252C%252520USA%2526msrpn%253d16%2526msrpn_PInfo%253d5-%25257C0%25257C1652393%25257C0%25257C2%25257C3247%25257C16%25257C0%25257C0%25257C0%25257C0%25257C%2526msrpn_x%253d1%2526msrpn__ftp_x%253d1%2526MSAV%253d0%2526uidh%253dko5%26backlabel%3DReturnSearchResults%23%3FimageId%3D4607982\">click here for a look<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/whereisone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-891\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/whereisone-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"whereisone\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/whereisone-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/whereisone.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For what it is worth, the last image (633) does not appear to be the book either. As of this posting, it was page 24&#8230;of something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1955 city directory for Peoria, Illinois, is included in\u00a0Ancestry.com&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;US City Directories 1822-1989.&#8221;\u00a0In attempting to interpret an entry from that year, I wanted to look at the front of the book where the abbreviations are usually located. The &#8220;viewer&#8221; at\u00a0Ancestry.com allows one to go to specific images. When viewing page 1, I expected to get [&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":[116],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com-directories-1822-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}