{"id":38350,"date":"2016-07-29T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38350"},"modified":"2016-07-29T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:26:36","slug":"documenting-the-lives-of-our-farming-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38350","title":{"rendered":"Documenting the Lives of Our Farming Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmcollector.com\/farm-life\/u-s-farmers-during-great-depression.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Texas-Dirt-Storm_250pw.jpg\" alt=\"Texas-Dirt-Storm_250pw\" width=\"250\" height=\"161\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professional genealogist Amy Johnson Crowe, wrote a great column on documenting the lives of our farming ancestors. I can identify with all of this, having had many ancestors who farmed the land. Following is a teaser. The rest of her article includes the good stuff.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How many times have you heard (or said), \u201cMy ancestors were plain ol\u2019 farmers\u201d? Or \u201cMy ancestors were pretty boring.\u201d (I\u2019ve said that one!) Plain, boring ancestors aren\u2019t the result of their personality; it\u2019s from our lack of building context for them. Most ancestors didn\u2019t leave diaries for us to read, but there are still ways we can learn about the lives they led. Here are some sources to explore to build context for farming ancestors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyjohnsoncrow.com\/2016\/07\/28\/building-context-for-our-farming-ancestors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at Amy&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional genealogist Amy Johnson Crowe, wrote a great column on documenting the lives of our farming ancestors. I can identify with all of this, having had many ancestors who farmed the land. Following is a teaser. The rest of her <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38350\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Documenting the Lives of Our Farming Ancestors<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38353,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350\/revisions\/38353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}