{"id":2081,"date":"2022-05-21T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2022-05-21T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:21:08","slug":"genealogy-this-and-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy This and That"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/noah.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2082\"\/><figcaption>Courtesy of 123rf.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week was the first time I skipped posting a blog; it was so hectic in my part of the universe I just couldn&#8217;t find the time. If you were looking for me, my apologies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s blog will be short and sweet as I have my area&#8217;s historical society&#8217;s annual picnic to set up for in a few minutes. The weather here is frightful so we&#8217;ll be picnicking INDOORS. Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m happy to announce I did complete the organizational project I mentioned two weeks ago. It&#8217;s hard for me to recycle my paper files but I&#8217;ve already found how much more useful and quick those files are to recover once they&#8217;ve been scanned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The past week I had a rush project; trying to find a descendant of a female pioneer from my area so a tombstone could be placed on her grave. You know how it is when you email someone for info and you wait and wait and wait for a response. This time, the lovely woman wrote back within an hour. The city approved the project on Monday but rescinded its decision on Friday. They wanted to connect with a descendant so I&#8217;ve just finished providing them with my contacts with the caveat that I haven&#8217;t fully researched those kinship claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I attended an interesting in-person local conference on preservation on Wednesday. I thought it would be about preserving buildings; instead, I learned some disturbing (to me!) information about my county&#8217;s &#8220;plan&#8221; in the event of a weather disaster. The plan isn&#8217;t a plan of prevention, it&#8217;s of how they plan to spend the federal and state dollars once the area is obliterated. I think I&#8217;m going through the stages of grief. I seem to have been the only attendee that was bothered by the slides presented. I came home and did further research and I understand where they were coming from &#8211; Florida lies on limestone so there is no way to prevent saltwater intrusion. Dikes aren&#8217;t going to work here. I discussed this with my family and we&#8217;re making our own plans. My thoughts are with the oldest genealogy book in existence, the Bible. Noah and his ark are definitely on my mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was the first time I skipped posting a blog; it was so hectic in my part of the universe I just couldn&#8217;t find the time. If you were looking for me, my apologies! Today&#8217;s blog will be short and sweet as I have my area&#8217;s historical society&#8217;s annual picnic to set up for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=2081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genealogy This and That&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[489,1044,52,1043],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-and-musings","tag-preservation","tag-recycling","tag-tombstones","tag-weather-disasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}