{"id":10934,"date":"2019-11-30T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2019-11-29T22:09:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T04:09:02","slug":"whats-a-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/30\/whats-a-relative\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Relative?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a Facebook post I referred to my daughter&#8217;s father-in-law as my relative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone seeing the post and not knowing who Jim was might actually have through he was a biological relative of mine and wondered what the connection was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember when interviewing family members that they may refer to individuals as &#8220;relatives&#8221; when they are not related in any biological way. They could have been related by marriage or could have been considered family for one reason or another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of trying force the &#8220;relative&#8221; to have a biological connection to your family, research them and see what the records indicate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Facebook post I referred to my daughter&#8217;s father-in-law as my relative. Someone seeing the post and not knowing who Jim was might actually have through he was a biological relative of mine and wondered what the connection was. Remember when interviewing family members that they may refer to individuals as &#8220;relatives&#8221; when they [&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-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934","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=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}