<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:inside;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Genealogy Tip of the Day Books</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Irish Twins</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Farmers and Not Landowners</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Common Name Webinar</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Consultations</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">--------------------------------------</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Genealogy Tip of the Day Books</div></li><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">--------------------------------------</div></li></ul><div>Want our tips in book form? 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"Irish Twins" is a term (now considered derogatory) for siblings of the same mother born less than a year apart. Google it if you've never heard of it. </div></div><div class="gmail-x14z9mp gmail-xat24cr gmail-x1lziwak gmail-x1vvkbs gmail-xtlvy1s gmail-x126k92a" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Now Grandma would never have lied about her own birth <grin>, so I knew that one was right <span class="gmail-html-span gmail-xexx8yu gmail-xyri2b gmail-x18d9i69 gmail-x1c1uobl gmail-x1hl2dhg gmail-x16tdsg8 gmail-x1vvkbs gmail-x3nfvp2 gmail-x1j61x8r gmail-x1fcty0u gmail-xdj266r gmail-xat24cr gmail-xm2jcoa gmail-x1mpyi22 gmail-xxymvpz gmail-xlup9mm gmail-x1kky2od" style="text-align:inherit;display:inline-flex;vertical-align:middle;width:16px;height:16px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;font-family:inherit"><img height="16" width="16" class="gmail-xz74otr gmail-x15mokao gmail-x1ga7v0g gmail-x16uus16 gmail-xbiv7yw" alt="\U0001f609" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t57/1/16/1f609.png" style="border: 0px; border-start-start-radius: 0px; border-end-end-radius: 0px; border-start-end-radius: 0px; border-end-start-radius: 0px; object-fit: fill;"></span> Actually G<span class="gmail-html-span gmail-xdj266r gmail-x14z9mp gmail-xat24cr gmail-x1lziwak gmail-xexx8yu gmail-xyri2b gmail-x18d9i69 gmail-x1c1uobl gmail-x1hl2dhg gmail-x16tdsg8 gmail-x1vvkbs" style="text-align:inherit;padding-bottom:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;font-family:inherit"><a tabindex="-1" class="gmail-html-a gmail-xdj266r gmail-x14z9mp gmail-xat24cr gmail-x1lziwak gmail-xexx8yu gmail-xyri2b gmail-x18d9i69 gmail-x1c1uobl gmail-x1hl2dhg gmail-x16tdsg8 gmail-x1vvkbs" style="color:rgb(56,88,152);text-align:inherit;padding-bottom:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;font-family:inherit"></a></span>randma's birth certificate gives her date in 1910 just like she had always insisted. Every record on Grandma from her birth certificate until her death gives a 1910 year of birth. Of course, her birth certificate (1910), baptism (1915), and 1920 census enumerations would be considered more reliable than her death certificate, obituary, and tombstone as those three were more contemporary to her actual date of birth.</div></div><div class="gmail-x14z9mp gmail-xat24cr gmail-x1lziwak gmail-x1vvkbs gmail-xtlvy1s gmail-x126k92a" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Aunt Lillie maintained she was born on 13 December 1909--it's in her obituary and on her tombstone. She has no birth certificate in Hancock County,Illinois, where she was born. But there's only 262 days between the births of my Aunt and my Grandma. That's a narrow time frame. But I heard the story of the close birth more than once. </div></div><div class="gmail-x14z9mp gmail-xat24cr gmail-x1lziwak gmail-x1vvkbs gmail-xtlvy1s gmail-x126k92a" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">However, her baptismal record from November of 1915 indicated she was born on 13 December 1908. Her 1910 census enumeration indicated she was 1 and 4/12 of a year old. She wasn't born in 1909 after all, but instead in 1908. Sometime around her marriage she shaved a year off her age. So Aunt Lillie wasn't born in 1909 but was born instead in 1908. It is possible that Aunt Lillie filed a delayed birth certificate in Adams County, Illinois, where she lived from the late 1920s through the duration of her life. That's not where she was born according (at least I'm 99% certain) to more contemporary sources, but she would not be the first person to have a delayed birth certificate filed somewhere other than where she was actually. It's possible she was born in Adams County, but based on what I know about the family I'm inclined to think it was Hancock--which is what her 1915 baptismal record indicates. Her sister is baptized on the same date and her place of birth on the baptism is the same township listed on the birth certificate five years earlier. </div></div><div class="gmail-x14z9mp gmail-xat24cr gmail-x1lziwak gmail-x1vvkbs gmail-xtlvy1s gmail-x126k92a" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">There was another Lillie Trautvetter born in December of 1908 as well--imagine the chance of that. Both of the Lillies had fathers named George. The Georges were cousins. </div></div><div class="gmail-x14z9mp gmail-xat24cr gmail-x1lziwak gmail-x1vvkbs gmail-xtlvy1s gmail-x126k92a" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(8,8,9);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">But these "Irish twins" weren't twins and they wern't Irish either. After all, they were Trautvetters, not "O'Trautvetters."</div></div></div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position:inside;color:rgb(70,112,127);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px"><li style="margin:0px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px 0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(37,41,42)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">--------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Farmers But Not Landowners</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div>--------------------------------------</div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px">Presentations on farming ancestors tend to focus on those who owned real estate. It can be a challenge to research those farmers who rented their ground, worked as sharecroppers, or those who worked in agriculture as farm laborers. </span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/farmers-tenants-and-laborers/" style="color:rgb(3,169,244);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";text-decoration-line:none;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%" target="_blank">In this presentation we focus on these types of individuals</a><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px">. Farm renters, sharecroppers, and farm laborers tend to leave fewer records\u2013</span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/farmers-tenants-and-laborers/" style="color:rgb(3,169,244);box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";text-decoration-line:none;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%" target="_blank">we\u2019ll focus on research strategies directed towards them.</a><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px"> They can be challenging to research in a way that landowners are not.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(37,41,42);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px">Details at:</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com</a><br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">---------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div>Common Name Webinar<br>--------------------------------------</div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Details on this presentation are at:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/04/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar/" target="_blank">https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/04/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar/</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Consultations with Michael</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Need help with your research? 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