{"id":9263,"date":"2019-09-27T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:40:53","slug":"asa-landon-on-the-mail-call-in-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"Asa Landon on the Mail Call in 1850"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> It wasn&#8217;t an earth shattering discovery in this case, but a digital newspaper search located a reference to Asa Landon on a list of post office letters in the Rockford, Illinois, post office on 1 January of 1850. This image comes from the <em>Rockford Forum<\/em>\u00a0of 9 January 1850.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"369\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/landon_asa_letter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/landon_asa_letter.jpg 369w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/landon_asa_letter-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Asa is listed in the 1850 US Census for Winnebago County and he married in Winnebago County (and is listed as &#8220;of&#8221; there) in his 1849 marriage, so the listing of his name wasn&#8217;t a newsflash to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>However, there are times where a person&#8217;s name on one of these lists can help show they were thought to have been in a certain location at a certain point in time. Remember that just because someone sent a letter to someone in a certain village doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that that person was living there at the time of the &#8220;letter list.&#8221; It means that someone on the day they mailed the letter thought the person lived there&#8211;or at least hoped they did. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t an earth shattering discovery in this case, but a digital newspaper search located a reference to Asa Landon on a list of post office letters in the Rockford, Illinois, post office on 1 January of 1850. This image comes from the Rockford Forum\u00a0of 9 January 1850. Asa is listed in the 1850 US [&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-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}