{"id":42,"date":"2012-11-19T17:47:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2012-11-19T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:48:27","slug":"databases-i-love-canadian-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Databases I Love &#8211; Canadian News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, I was researching a Canadian murder mystery. That project has stalled out somewhat while I await new resources, but I came across some great Canadian genealogy resources in the search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/journaux-chez-bac\/035005-8000-e.html\">Canadian News Online<\/a> is one of those resources.<\/p>\n<p>When doing genealogy, you can either work on the &#8220;tree&#8221; or the &#8220;leaves.&#8221; The tree typically encompasses dates, names &#8211; the structure of your genealogy. The leaves are the details &#8211; stories, photographs, etc. The best resource for details, aside from family sources, are newspapers. Often small-town papers had gossip sections that would go so far as to say when people would visit with relatives in other towns. I found a story about my great great grand-kitty being thrown from a horse, escaping uninjured. These bits of flavor go far to making the people real who otherwise would just be a name, date, and nothing more. If I can&#8217;t get even that information, I like to research the place the people are from to get an idea of what life was like in that area during those dates. Newspapers can also help with that.<\/p>\n<p>Mucho Fishies<\/p>\n<p>Bratty Kitty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, I was researching a Canadian murder mystery. That project has stalled out somewhat while I await new resources, but I came across some great Canadian genealogy resources in the search. Canadian News Online is one of those resources. When doing genealogy, you can either work on the &#8220;tree&#8221; or the &#8220;leaves.&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brattykitty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}