{"id":10949,"date":"2019-12-04T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T21:20:20","slug":"they-were-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/04\/they-were-human\/","title":{"rendered":"They Were Human"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If we have not experienced some of the things our family members in the past did, it is difficult to say how it might have really impacted them. It&#8217;s hard to say how you would react to something that has never happened to you. One can empathize, but sometimes it&#8217;s hard to understand when you&#8217;ve not really experienced it yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last two of my grandmother&#8217;s three children did not survive birth. I&#8217;m not certain how I would have reacted had I been in that same situation and the &#8220;babies&#8221; (as they were called) were not discussed or asked about. I have other family members (distant and not-so-distant) who had similar experiences, including a great-great-grandma whose son was murdered in Kansas City in 1921. I&#8217;m certain that impacted her as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes life events such as these can impact a family for some time. Are there any events that may have made a lasting impact on your ancestral family and how they interacted with each other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <br>The <em>Genealogy Tip of the Day <\/em>book is just about ready!\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2pJsbdp\" target=\"_blank\">Add your name to be notified when it is ready for distribution<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we have not experienced some of the things our family members in the past did, it is difficult to say how it might have really impacted them. It&#8217;s hard to say how you would react to something that has never happened to you. One can empathize, but sometimes it&#8217;s hard to understand when you&#8217;ve [&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-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","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=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}