{"id":565,"date":"2018-12-17T10:13:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2018-12-17T10:13:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:13:02","slug":"ghosts-of-christmas-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/ghosts-of-christmas-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of Christmas Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just in time for the holidays, ghosts of the family come back to show us our past lives and point the way to the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve finished researching our London ancestors so we can root out their &#8220;haunts&#8221; and recreate their lives in our upcoming trip to England.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story of Bessie (nee Estall) Schutze&#8217;s father and grandfather, and great &#8230; well, you get the idea. The story begins in 1721 in the shadow of the Tower of London. It ends in 1906 in a Workhouse infirmary. It&#8217;s a three-act play with a sprawling cast of characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read the story here. And as Tiny Tim would say, &quot;A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, every one!&quot;\n (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/history\/The%20Estall%20Family%20-%20A%20History%20in%20Three%20Acts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story here<\/a>. (click to open)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as Tiny Tim would say, &#8220;A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, every one!&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the holidays, ghosts of the family come back to show us our past lives and point the way to the future. We&#8217;ve finished researching our London ancestors so we can root out their &#8220;haunts&#8221; and recreate their lives in our upcoming trip to England. Here&#8217;s the story of Bessie (nee Estall) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/ghosts-of-christmas-past\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ghosts of Christmas Past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}