{"id":10289,"date":"2019-07-20T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10289"},"modified":"2019-07-20T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:55:33","slug":"what-did-he-know-about-the-half-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/20\/what-did-he-know-about-the-half-siblings\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did He Know About the Half-Siblings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A relative made out an affidavit in Bedford County, Virginia, in the 1820s. In it he mentioned the older half-siblings of his wife. Those half-siblings were the result of his mother-in-law&#8217;s first relationship. While court documents are &#8220;supposed&#8221; to be correct, they sometimes are not. Based upon other contemporary records, it appears that the son-in-law knew the first names of his wife&#8217;s older half-siblings, but referred to all of them by their maiden names throughout the affidavit, even though they were married. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s very possible that the family of someone&#8217;s second marriage did not have overly detailed knowledge of the family of the first marriage. That&#8217;s especially true if second family lived a distance from the first or if there was a falling out between the two families. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relative made out an affidavit in Bedford County, Virginia, in the 1820s. In it he mentioned the older half-siblings of his wife. Those half-siblings were the result of his mother-in-law&#8217;s first relationship. While court documents are &#8220;supposed&#8221; to be correct, they sometimes are not. Based upon other contemporary records, it appears that the son-in-law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}