{"id":9520,"date":"2019-12-07T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2019-12-07T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:43:30","slug":"prairie-patrimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9520","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Patrimony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nI have always been a big fan of this book and have mentioned it in numerous lectures. It is the study of farming and inheritance trends in several Illinois farm communities from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author studies one Ostfriesen community in Illinois. When I read her comments, it was as if she had looked at my genealogical research, and grown up in one of those areas as I had. &#8220;Unwritten rules,&#8221; the importance of the homeplace, were all issues she talked about as she discussed Ostfriesen immigrant farmers. She studied non-Ostfriesen Germans and &#8220;Yankees&#8221; as well. As the descendant of all three types of families (my Mother is Ostfriesen and my Dad is non-Ostfriesen German and &#8220;Yankee&#8221;) the differences she points out really hit home when I thought about my different families and how certain things were done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with farm ancestors in the Midwest in the 19th century would be well-served by reading the book. I&#8217;ve read mine several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0807845531?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rootdigcom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0807845531\">Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest (Studies in Rural Culture)<\/a>. The author is Dr. Sonya Salamon and it was published by North Carolina University Press.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been a big fan of this book and have mentioned it in numerous lectures. It is the study of farming and inheritance trends in several Illinois farm communities from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. The author studies one Ostfriesen community in Illinois. When I read her comments, it was as [&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-9520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520","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=9520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}