{"id":10328,"date":"2019-07-31T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10328"},"modified":"2019-07-31T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:55:28","slug":"how-precise-is-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/31\/how-precise-is-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Precise Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"865\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/exactly18.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/exactly18.jpg 865w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/exactly18-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/exactly18-768x326.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because the spot for the months on his age is blank does not mean that Henry Dorges was 18 years and 0 months old when this declaration was signed. He could have not provided his age with more precision than 18. He might have simply guessed at his age. It&#8217;s hard to say, but saying that this declaration was made on his birthday is a bit of a stretch. What is safe to say is that Henry indicated he was 18 when he signed the declaration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether that age was correct, accidentally wrong, or an outright lie is another matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year of the declaration is not included in the portion of it used to illustrate this post. There&#8217;s the second tip&#8211;screenshots  and clipped versions of record images sometimes are not enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/henry-doerges-declaration-civil-war-enlistment-830x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/henry-doerges-declaration-civil-war-enlistment-830x1024.jpg 830w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/henry-doerges-declaration-civil-war-enlistment-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/henry-doerges-declaration-civil-war-enlistment-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/henry-doerges-declaration-civil-war-enlistment.jpg 1697w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because the spot for the months on his age is blank does not mean that Henry Dorges was 18 years and 0 months old when this declaration was signed. He could have not provided his age with more precision than 18. He might have simply guessed at his age. It&#8217;s hard to say, but [&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-10328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328","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=10328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}