{"id":9910,"date":"2020-05-14T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9910"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:37:30","slug":"thats-not-a-matchmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9910","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Not a Matchmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The question is the occupation of two daughters of Christian Troutfetter in the 1880 census for Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. I knew it wasn&#8217;t a matchmaker and had a long blog post written up about what it was. Then I decided to just google what it looked like&#8211;&#8220;mantuamaker.&#8221; Sure enough it found it and now it looks like I actually have the occupation for these two daughters. Basically they were dressmakers. Readers who want to learn more can perform their own google search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two daughters with these occupations were 23 and 21 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn something new every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1880_occupations_troutfetter_girls.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1880_occupations_troutfetter_girls.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1880_occupations_troutfetter_girls-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question is the occupation of two daughters of Christian Troutfetter in the 1880 census for Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. I knew it wasn&#8217;t a matchmaker and had a long blog post written up about what it was. Then I decided to just google what it looked like&#8211;&#8220;mantuamaker.&#8221; Sure enough it found it and now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9910","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\/9910","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=9910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11090,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions\/11090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}