{"id":9794,"date":"2020-03-09T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:55:12","slug":"inoculated-for-smallpox-by-july-of-1809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9794","title":{"rendered":"Inoculated for Smallpox by July of 1809"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> A scar &#8220;by inoculation&#8221; on this 1809 Seaman&#8217;s Proof of Citizenship likely refers to an inoculation against smallpox. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/smallpox-1024x855.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/smallpox-1024x855.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/smallpox-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/smallpox-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/smallpox.jpg 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThose with a knowledge of the fight to eradicate smallpox will remember that vaccines were around in 1809. How common it was for sailors to have been vaccinated during this time I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another interesting bit of information &nbsp;that can be gleaned from these records. Sometimes one doesn&#8217;t know what is in a set of records until one takes the time to actually browse the records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I have any ancestor or relative on whom I&#8217;m stuck and there&#8217;s even a sliver of a chance that he went to sea, these records should be accessed if for no other reason that one never knows what information they might contain in that &#8220;description.&#8221;\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scar &#8220;by inoculation&#8221; on this 1809 Seaman&#8217;s Proof of Citizenship likely refers to an inoculation against smallpox. Those with a knowledge of the fight to eradicate smallpox will remember that vaccines were around in 1809. How common it was for sailors to have been vaccinated during this time I don&#8217;t know. Another interesting bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","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=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11133,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions\/11133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}