{"id":92,"date":"2005-08-29T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2005-08-29T01:11:32","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T06:11:32","slug":"passion-for-preserving-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2005\/08\/29\/passion-for-preserving-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion for Preserving the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/dnj.midsouthnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/frontpage\">The Daily News Journal<\/a> (Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Nancy De Gennaro wrote an article, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnj.midsouthnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050828\/LIFESTYLE\/508280302\/1024\">Passion for preserving the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do you know how many people it takes to produce you?&#8221; asks local genealogist Jerry Anderson. &#8220;In 10 generations, there can be as many as 512 people that produced you. Now you know why we&#8217;re all related.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, queries such &#8220;Who are we?&#8221; and &#8220;Where did we come from?&#8221; are inherent to the human psyche. If Web sites devoted to family genealogy are any indication of interest, millions of Americans are trying to answer these age-old questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we need to know who we were to be able to know who we are,&#8221; says avid genealogical researcher Jerry Anderson of Murfreesboro.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another positive article about the interest in genealogy, and it reinforces my belief that the interest in genealogy is growing at a much faster rate than years past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/dnj.midsouthnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/frontpage\">The Daily News Journal<\/a> (Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Nancy De Gennaro wrote an article, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnj.midsouthnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050828\/LIFESTYLE\/508280302\/1024\">Passion for preserving the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}