{"id":700,"date":"2010-07-09T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/friday-finds-070910\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T21:41:01","slug":"friday-finds-070910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/friday-finds-070910\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Finds \u2013 07\/09\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/FridayFinds.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I\u2019ve learned or found.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Only one thing this week to share, as I have been super busy since before the holiday (but I won\u2019t bore you with the details).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Grandmothers\u201d of Aurora<\/strong> \u2013 This article was written by Michael R. Fichtel and appears in the Summer 2010 issue of the <em>Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly<\/em>.\u00a0 The article is essentially a transcription of a booklet the author found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aurorahistoricalsociety.org\/\">Aurora Historical Society<\/a> entitled <em>Reminiscences Prepared From Written and Verbal Recitals of the Personal Experience of \u201cThe Grandmothers\u201d of Aurora in Early Pioneer Life in Illinois Compiled For a Benefit Called \u201cThe Grandmother\u2019s Rally<\/em>, which was published in 1892.\u00a0 There are nearly 50 biographical sketches, all from Aurora women.\u00a0 While none of these fabulous women belong to my Aurora families, it was quite an interesting read.\u00a0 I found the information on pioneer life in Aurora fascinating.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, many of them women talked about their lives before relocating to Aurora.\u00a0 From this, you can see what life was like in other places beside Aurora (in fact, some of the places mentioned were where my own ancestors lived at one time).\u00a0 This booklet is one of those gems where you can learn about Aurora history, pioneer life, and nineteenth century life in the East from the personal experiences of these wonderful \u201cgrandmothers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I\u2019ve learned or found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,300],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-resources-genblog","tag-friday-finds","cat-25-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-bi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}