{"id":286,"date":"2014-03-14T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2014-03-14T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T21:19:10","slug":"joseph-theodore-delk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Theodore Delk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1928 my Great-Great Uncle, <a title=\"Joseph Theodore Delk Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/Ethelred%20Delk\/John%20Delk\/Joseph%20Theodore%20Delk\/JosephTheodoreDelkMaster.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Theodore Delk<\/a>, started corresponding with his niece, Mary May Delk. True to the Delk hoarding gene, she kept all of the letters. I have had these letters for awhile, but had stored them before a move ten years ago, and am just now getting back to them. You see, I have the hoarding gene as well, which is bad for the home life, but good for future genealogist. So, I am now scanning the letters, as well as transcribing them. My goal, is to do at least three a week. The first three are up on his home page.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, his death certificate and 1930 census information shows that his father was born in Ireland. That, as we all know, is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1928 my Great-Great Uncle, Joseph Theodore Delk, started corresponding with his niece, Mary May Delk. True to the Delk hoarding gene, she kept all of the letters. I have had these letters for awhile, but had stored them before a move ten years ago, and am just now getting back to them. You see, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37,7,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elmer","category-joseph-theodore-delk","category-letters","category-mary-may-delk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.familyhistoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}