{"id":74009,"date":"2012-04-09T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=74009"},"modified":"2012-04-09T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:10:59","slug":"monday-recap-for-april-9-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/monday-recap-for-april-9-2012-74009.html","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recap for April 9, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 1940 U.S. census was released last Monday, there were a large number of census related articles. Check out a few interesting articles below!<\/p>\n<h3>The Genealogy Sphere<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2012\/04\/02\/nypl_to_release_1940_census_tool_mo.php\">J.D. Salinger Found Using NYPL&#8217;s 1940 Census Tool<\/a>\u00a0(Gothamist) &#8211; J.D. Salinger was found in the 1940 census using the New York Public Library&#8217;s research tool<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.about.com\/b\/2012\/04\/03\/citations-explained.htm\">Citations Explained &#8211; A Don&#8217;t Miss Resource for all Genealogists<\/a> (About.com) &#8211; With the release of the 1940 census, Kimberly Powell goes over the\u00a0importance\u00a0of citations in genealogy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.about.com\/b\/2012\/04\/02\/how-to-find-someone-in-the-1940-census.htm?nl=1\">How to Find Someone in the 1940 Census<\/a> (About.com) &#8211; Genealogist Kimberly Powell also provides easy to follow steps on how to find your relatives in the 1940 census<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/take-it-with-genealogy-grain-of-salt.html\">Take it With a Grain of Salt<\/a> (Olive Tree Genealogy Blog) &#8211; A good reminder that genealogists should not rely on one document or article to paint a full picture of who a person was<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak\/1940-census-celebrities_b_1401562.html#s840603&amp;title=Betty_White_in\">Celebrities in the 1940 Census<\/a> (Huffington Post) &#8211; Megan Smolenyak discovers celebrities in the 1940 census<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/feature\/20120404-a-trip-back-to-your-roots\">A trip back to your roots<\/a> (BBC Travel) &#8211; A look into genealogy tourism<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nj.com\/tracing_your_roots\/2012\/04\/you_cant_do_jersey_genealogy_without_a_trip_to_the_state_archives.html\">You can&#8217;t do Jersey Genealogy without a trip to the State Archives<\/a> (NJ.com) &#8211; Some good tips that can be applied to any trip to the State Archives<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20584292,00.html\">Kyra Sedgwick &amp; Kevin Bacon are Distant Cousins<\/a> (People) &#8211; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovers couple Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon are related<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>On Geni<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/monday-recap-for-april-2-2012-373765.html\">Monday Recap for April 2, 2012<\/a> &#8211; Last week&#8217;s recap<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/the-1940-u-s-census-is-now-available-373747.html\">The 1940 U.S. Census is Now Available!<\/a> &#8211; Announcing the release of the 1940 census<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/genealogy-and-the-pony-express-373793.html\">Genealogy and the Pony Express<\/a> &#8211; We highlighted the Pony Express project in honor of its 152nd anniversary<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/look-whos-related-taylor-swift-and-reba-mcentire-373829.html\">Look Who&#8217;s Related: Taylor Swift and Reba McEntire<\/a> &#8211; Check out how ACM Entertainer of the Year winner Taylor Swift is related to some of country music&#8217;s biggest stars<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/celebrities-in-the-1940-u-s-census-373891.html\">Celebrities in the 1940 Census<\/a> &#8211; We found some celebrities in the 1940 census<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Profile of the Day<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-dorothea-dix-373740.html\">Dorothea Dix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-jane-goodall-373786.html\">Jane Goodall<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-martin-luther-king-jr-3-373805.html\">Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-kurt-cobain-373831.html\">Kurt Cobain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-edie-falco-373868.html\">Edie Falco<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 1940 U.S. census was released last Monday, there were a large number of census related articles. 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Salinger was found in the 1940 census using the New York Public Library&#8217;s research tool Citations Explained &#8211; A Don&#8217;t Miss Resource for all Genealogists (About.com) &#8211; With the release of the 1940 census, Kimberly Powell goes&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/monday-recap-for-april-9-2012-74009.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3761],"tags":[5042,4980,4538,2321,521],"class_list":["post-74009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-recap-2","tag-1940-census","tag-articles","tag-genealogy","tag-links","tag-recap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74014,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74009\/revisions\/74014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}