{"id":11145,"date":"2020-01-12T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2020-01-12T09:28:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T15:28:50","slug":"was-that-age-rounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/12\/was-that-age-rounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Was that Age Rounded?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s always the chance that an age in any record is incorrect. If I&#8217;m looking at a census enumeration for someone who is a little bit older and their age ends in a 0 or a 5, I look to see how common it is for others who are a little bit older to have ages that end in a 0 or a 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the ages for &#8220;those of a certain age&#8221; are entered accurately, one-fifth of them should end in a 0 or a 5. If it is significantly more than that there is the possibility that the ages have been approximated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a possibility. Really determining that the ages for &#8220;those of a certain&#8221; were approximated requires a little more analysis than looking at the ages on a few pages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always the chance that an age in any record is incorrect. If I&#8217;m looking at a census enumeration for someone who is a little bit older and their age ends in a 0 or a 5, I look to see how common it is for others who are a little bit older to have [&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-11145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145","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=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}