{"id":11314,"date":"2020-02-18T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2020-02-18T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:57:19","slug":"were-they-even-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/were-they-even-married\/","title":{"rendered":"Were They Even Married?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tipoftheday-amazon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10963\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Most genealogists should know how people reproduce. But sometimes we forget that people don&#8217;t have to be married for that to happen. In some time periods and in some locations, having children outside of marriage was more common than a person might think. Two siblings of my great-great-grandfather in Thuringen, Germany, had several children before they were married (1830-1840 era). They were apparently in a long-term relationship with the fathers of their children as baptismal records for the children indicate that both sisters had their children with the same father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the <em>exact same father <\/em>(one needs to be careful how one phrases things). One sister had her children with Mr. B and the other sister had her children with Mr. S. The sisters eventually married their respective fathers of their children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does this matter? One reason is that sometimes the children used their mother&#8217;s surname as their last name and sometimes they used their father&#8217;s surname as their last name. That was confusing to me until I learned the marital history of their parents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most genealogists should know how people reproduce. But sometimes we forget that people don&#8217;t have to be married for that to happen. In some time periods and in some locations, having children outside of marriage was more common than a person might think. Two siblings of my great-great-grandfather in Thuringen, Germany, had several children before [&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-11314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314","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=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}