{"id":832,"date":"2009-11-24T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/finding-wwi-service-among-probate-files\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:09:27","slug":"finding-wwi-service-among-probate-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/finding-wwi-service-among-probate-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding WWI Service Among Probate Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alplm.org\/library\/library.html\">Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library<\/a> in Springfield, Illinois, I requested the book <em>With The Colors From Aurora 1917, 1918, 1919<\/em>, as I knew there was a reference to a Ferdinand Henry Schwartz (obtained from an index).\u00a0 I quickly found the reference, but all it said was:\u00a0 \u201cPvt. U.S. Army.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since there are a handful of Henry Schwartzes in Aurora during that time period, I wasn\u2019t for sure if this was my great-granduncle or not, even though I know his middle name is Ferdinand (likely named after his grandfather).\u00a0 I made a note of it and moved on.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today, I was going through his probate file and noticed a line item for a U.S. Adjusted Service Compensation Certificate (#1768698) among the inventoried items.\u00a0 A quick search on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adjusted_Service_Certificate_Law\">Wikipedia<\/a> indicated that there was an Adjusted Service Certificate Law \u201cpassed in 1924 that granted veterans of World War I \u2018bonus\u2019 certificates the following year that would be redeemable after a maturation period of 20 years for $1 dollar in cash for each day served in the United States and $1.25 dollars for each day served abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the certificate was awarded to WWI veterans, it is quite likely that the reference in that book, is in fact my great-granduncle Henry Ferdinand Schwartz.\u00a0 More digging is in order to make certain, but who knew I\u2019d find such a clue in a probate file!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, I requested the book With The Colors From Aurora 1917, 1918, 1919, as I knew there was a reference to a Ferdinand Henry Schwartz (obtained from an index).\u00a0 I quickly found the reference, [&hellip;]<\/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":[27,25,26],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-family-schwartz","cat-27-id","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-dq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}