{"id":10544,"date":"2018-12-24T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2018-12-22T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T07:12:39","slug":"a-genealogists-christmas-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-genealogists-christmas-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"A genealogist&#8217;s Christmas wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS<\/p>\n<p>Dear Santa:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t bring me new dishes; I don&#8217;t need a new kind of game.<br \/>\nGenealogists have peculiar wishes; for Christmas I just want a surname.<\/p>\n<p>A new washing machine would be great, but it&#8217;s not the desire of my life.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just found an ancestor&#8217;s birth date; what I need now is the name of his wife.<\/p>\n<p>My heart doesn&#8217;t yearn for a ring, that would put a real diamond to shame.<br \/>\nWhat I want is a much cheaper thing; please give me Mary&#8217;s last name.<\/p>\n<p>To see my heart singing with joy, don&#8217;t bring me a red leather suitcase.<br \/>\nBring me a genealogist&#8217;s toy: A surname, with dates and place.<\/p>\n<p>Wyoming Co. PA Pioneers via Clark County Genealogical Society, 1984. Reprinted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/warrencountygenes.org\/Publications\/newspdf\/1985-No.10-Nov.pdf\">November 1985 newsletter<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)\u00a0of the Warren County Genealogical Society. <a href=\"http:\/\/warrencountygenes.org\/Publications\/newsletters.html\">The WCGS archives have been digitized.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS Dear Santa: Don&#8217;t bring me new dishes; I don&#8217;t need a new kind of game. Genealogists have peculiar wishes; for Christmas I just want a surname. A new washing machine would be great, but it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/a-genealogists-christmas-wish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions\/10546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}