{"id":45,"date":"2010-06-03T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T22:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=45"},"modified":"2010-06-03T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T22:17:35","slug":"a-case-for-online-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2010\/06\/03\/a-case-for-online-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case for Online Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently contacted by a previously unknown fifth cousin, Andrea, from Bremen, Germany.  We share fourth great-grandparents, <a href=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/tree\/groups\/public\/grp00039.html\">Peter Joseph Mauren and Anna Maria Minwegen<\/a>.  Her branch of the family remained in Germany while my third great-grandparents emigrated to America in 1840.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Andrea&#8217;s search began recently with a family chronicle written by her second great-grandfather, Franz Xaver Mauer, in 1936 when he was 83 years old.  He describes in detail his ancestors, their occupations and where they lived.  He was born after my third great-grandmother, Anna Catharina Mauren, his aunt, left for America.  Although he never met her, he heard that she and her husband <a href=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/tree\/groups\/public\/grp00019.html\">Nicolas Pohl<\/a> celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in America (in 1872).<\/p>\n<p>Andrea graciously shared with me an electronic copy of her family chronicle.  It is a great resource and is something I never would have found in a library or online collection.  It is one of the rewards of publishing my research online.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/2010\/06\/03\/a-case-for-online-genealogy\/mauer\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mauer.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stammbaum Der Familie Mauer\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mauer.jpg 200w, https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mauer-105x150.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stammbaum Der Familie Mauer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently contacted by a previously unknown fifth cousin, Andrea, from Bremen, Germany. We share fourth great-grandparents, Peter Joseph Mauren and Anna Maria Minwegen. Her branch of the family remained in Germany while my third great-grandparents emigrated to America in 1840.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-research-methodology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}