{"id":15186,"date":"2018-06-19T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/?p=15186"},"modified":"2022-03-09T05:06:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T05:06:39","slug":"always-read-the-footnotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/always-read-the-footnotes\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Solved It: Always Read the Footnotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bridgingthepast.com\/2018\/01\/15\/always-read-the-footnotes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/How-I-solved-it-Blog-Featured-image-Footnote-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/How-I-solved-it-Blog-Featured-image-Footnote-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/How-I-solved-it-Blog-Featured-image-Footnote-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/How-I-solved-it-Blog-Featured-image-Footnote-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/How-I-solved-it-Blog-Featured-image-Footnote.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Lori Lyn Price from <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgingthepast.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridging the Past<\/a> shares an inspirational experience and reminds us to always read the footnotes&#8211;even when you&#8217;re not expecting to find pertinent genealogical information.<\/p>\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI am very interested in domestic medicine (medicine practiced in the home) and recently began branching out from colonial medicine to 19th century \u201cMormon Medicine\u201d as all of my 19th-century ancestors converted to Mormonism between 1830 and 1880. Understanding the medical techniques practiced among the Mormons would add social context to my research.<\/p>\n<p>I planned a trip to the Church History Library in Salt Lake City in June 2017. I reached out to a librarian prior to coming and she sent me a list of articles to read before we met. The articles focused on faith healing, an important aspect of Mormon medicine.<\/p>\n<p>As a good researcher should, I skimmed the footnotes as I was reading the articles on the plan en route to Salt Lake. Lo and behold, my 2x great grandmother Hannah Adeline Hatch (Addie) was mentioned. I know of the incredible woman that Addie was and that she suffered many health problems throughout her life, but I had no idea that she was a healer or that she left behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/content.byui.edu\/items\/0c4819b4-e325-4be6-b90e-c068453af158\/1\/\">diary<\/a> which is publicly available.<\/p>\n<p>You can bet I downloaded that diary the first chance I got. I am in the process of transcribing it.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to read the footnotes. You never know what you might find.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-886\" src=\"https:\/\/bridgingthepast.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/addie1.png?w=569&amp;h=253\" alt=\"Addie\" width=\"569\" height=\"253\"><\/p>\n<p>If you have a story idea or a blog that you\u2019d like to share as part of this series, please let us know about it in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Lyn Price from Bridging the Past shares an inspirational experience and reminds us to always read the footnotes&#8211;even when you&#8217;re not expecting to find pertinent genealogical information. ______________________ &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":15209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12,1],"tags":[18,17,22,34,35,14],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/How-I-solved-it-Blog-Featured-image-Footnote.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15186"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16066,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions\/16066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsfinder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}