{"id":1788,"date":"2018-10-16T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:56:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:56:14","slug":"some-of-our-favorite-websites-historic-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/16\/some-of-our-favorite-websites-historic-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of our Favorite Websites for Historic Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, we posted about a personal connection that Archaeologist Alycia Giedd made with northwest Indiana history.<\/p>\n

She discovered we were working near a small town where her ancestors used to live (Furnessville, Indiana). Alycia learned that a handful of her ancestors, including her 4x great grandparents, were buried in the cemetery associated with this town. Once she realized her connection with the town, she used her knowledge of uncovering the past to delve a little bit deeper in to her family\u2019s history.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That social media post generated quite a bit of activity, so we decided to share with you some of the tools we use during our research and how you can use them to research your own family history. Because digging for the past doesn\u2019t have to be done outside in the dirt, you can do it right from your fingertips on the computer.<\/p>\n

We use several websites for historic research. Each have strengths and weaknesses, but there is no single \u201cbest\u201d site. It all depends on your needs and interests. That said, many sites are very good \u2013 click on the link here for a PDF<\/a> with more info on\u00a0 just a few of our favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, we posted about a personal connection that Archaeologist Alycia Giedd made with northwest Indiana history. She discovered we were working near a small town where her ancestors used to live (Furnessville, Indiana). Alycia learned that a handful of her ancestors, including her 4x great grandparents, were buried in the cemetery associated with this town. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-history","tag-historic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}