{"id":18,"date":"2007-01-14T14:37:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-01-14T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T00:49:19","slug":"january-13-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"January 13 Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JanIt was a day amateur genealogists like me dream of. My father-in-law’s family sent him a couple of tubes filled with documents and notes about both sides of his family. Most of this was information I had been unable to find in my searches in the known databases. So I had a blast reading through it all, and taking my first document photographs. I was sure glad I had my husband’s 6 megapixel Fuji, since even though my camera takes very nice pictures, I would not be able to see the details with its 2.1 megapixels.<\/p>\n

This particular document is the marriage certificate of my FIL’s paternal grandparents, over 100 years old. There were baptismal and confirmation certificates, notes people had written down over the years, a death certificate,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0and a family tree chart\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0started by my FIL’s mother.<\/p>\n

One of the neatest sheets, though, is a story of how his great-grandparents came to America from\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Eastern Europe\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0with his grandmother, then 8 years old, after their other\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a06 children had died of cholera. It tells of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0how they traveled across Europe, earning money as they\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0went, then bought passage to America for several hundred dollars.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0They landed in Baltimore with 25 cents. The story continues with how they lived, moving across the country, then settling in Michigan. They had\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0five more children, many of whose descendents\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0still live within fifty miles of the original home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a day amateur genealogists like me dream of. My father-in-law’s family sent him a couple of tubes filled with documents and notes about both sides of his family. Most of this was information I had been unable to find in my searches in the known databases. So I had a blast reading through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granolageekmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}