{"id":2067,"date":"2011-08-09T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2011-08-09T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:28:36","slug":"meet-your-civil-war-ancestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/09\/meet-your-civil-war-ancestor\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your Civil War Ancestor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_2070\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/chicoppe-library1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2070\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/chicoppe-library1.jpg\" alt=\"Chicopee Library\" title=\"Chicopee Library\" width=\"277\" height=\"167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2070\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicopee Library<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Interested in Civil War era genealogy but uncertain where to begin?<\/p>\n<p>Genealogist Sara Campbell &#8212; who has Holyoke roots &#8212; will be presenting tonight at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicopee Public Library<\/a>, Tuesday August 9th at 5:30 p.m.,as part of the Civil War Speakers Series.<\/p>\n<p>The event is entitled &#8220;<em>Meet Your Civil War Ancestor<\/em>&#8221; and Sara will be discussing various records and sources that can be used to find information about Civil War soldiers.  Using the family of Chicopee resident Richard Wall as a case study, she will illustrate how facts found in government documents can add detail to a name or event and bring a story to light.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great opportunity to learn about resources for genealogy research from an expert!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in Civil War era genealogy but uncertain where to begin? Genealogist Sara Campbell &#8212; who has Holyoke roots &#8212; will be presenting tonight at the Chicopee Public Library, Tuesday August 9th at 5:30 p.m.,as part of the Civil War Speakers Series. The event is entitled &#8220;Meet Your Civil War Ancestor&#8221; and Sara will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}