{"id":3021,"date":"2024-08-03T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2024-08-03T11:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:42:44","slug":"genealogy-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=3021","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IHS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IHS.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IHS-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Indiana Historical Society Archives, Indianapolis. Photo by Lori Samuelson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In June I had the pleasure of taking a behind the scene archive tour at the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis. This was a field trip sponsored by the Society of Indiana Pioneers. It is a lovely archive with interesting and informative exhibits. Different than most archives I\u2019ve visited, I was permitted to touch the items in their collection. That included a 2500 year old Akkadian cuneiform tablet, an original copy of Thomas Paine\u2019s Common Sense, and one of only three Book of Enoch circa 1450-1500 written an ancient South Semitic language known to be in existence. We also saw the box in the archives that held President William Harrison\u2019s quilt, several busts of Abe Lincoln, and loads of photos and postcards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June I had the pleasure of taking a behind the scene archive tour at the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis. This was a field trip sponsored by the Society of Indiana Pioneers. It is a lovely archive with interesting and informative exhibits. Different than most archives I\u2019ve visited, I was permitted to touch the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=3021\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genealogy Field Trip&#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":[7],"tags":[341,1212,1213],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-archives","tag-indiana-historical-society","tag-society-of-indiana-pioneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","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=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}