{"id":10310,"date":"2019-07-27T00:16:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T05:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10310"},"modified":"2019-07-27T00:16:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T05:16:48","slug":"was-there-a-short-first-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/27\/was-there-a-short-first-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Was There a Short First Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you think you are at a brick wall on a certain ancestor or relative, ask yourself:  is it possible this person had a short-term marriage that I don&#8217;t know about?  That marriage could have ended with the death of a spouse shortly after the marriage or a divorce not long after the wedding ceremony.  If the short marriage did not result in offspring and it&#8217;s ending was highly dramatic, it&#8217;s very possible that no one in the family later mentioned it. And it can make records confusing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relatives don&#8217;t always tell you everything&#8211;sometimes because they don&#8217;t want you to know it and sometimes because they don&#8217;t know it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think you are at a brick wall on a certain ancestor or relative, ask yourself: is it possible this person had a short-term marriage that I don&#8217;t know about? That marriage could have ended with the death of a spouse shortly after the marriage or a divorce not long after the wedding ceremony. [&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-10310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310","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=10310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}