{"id":2828,"date":"2017-01-08T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2017-01-08T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T09:58:51","slug":"todays-activity-finding-aphenous-long-genealogy-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/08\/todays-activity-finding-aphenous-long-genealogy-ancestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s activity: Finding Aphenous Long #Genealogy #Ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Just a little tale of my activities today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Between writing, creating art, singing, and reading, I like to spend down-time researching my family history. It is a long term project that I have been working on since my late teens. In those days I was reduced to wandering dusty university libraries (ah, I still remember the delightful aroma of leather-bound tomes) looking for old digests and annuals that might provide clues. Now I do most of my work online.<\/p>\n<p>Brick walls tend to turn up all the time when chasing ancestors and their families. It&#8217;s kind of expected. But the good news is that more information is constantly being loaded onto the internet and, even if it isn&#8217;t, a few months can give you a fresh set of eyes. So it was about time today to do such a review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Ancestry.com.au\">Ancestry.com.au<\/a> is home to my tree. I have several hundred of mine and my wife&#8217;s family listed, some branches going back to the 1600s and one to the 1500s. According to DNA my Long family were originally an O&#8217;Long family from Ireland. The paper trail does not reach that far back, ending in Norfolk around Downham Market for the past few hundred years. This said, Long is a very common name and the major issue with research is determining which Longs are my Longs.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s uncertainty was a minor one in the scheme of things. I had taken some information about my great grandfather&#8217;s brothers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little tale of my activities today. Between writing, creating art, singing, and reading, I like to spend down-time researching my family history. It is a long term project that I have been working on since my late teens. In those days I was reduced to wandering dusty university libraries (ah, I still remember the delightful aroma of leather-bound tomes) looking for old digests and annuals that might provide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[318,319,320,61],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genealogy","tag-ancestry","tag-ancestry-com","tag-family-tree","tag-genealogy","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08_14-54-23.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}