{"id":11536,"date":"2020-04-13T20:57:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11536"},"modified":"2020-04-13T20:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:57:47","slug":"the-unrelated-hired-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/the-unrelated-hired-help\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;UnRelated&#8221; Hired Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around 1902, widow Nancy Rampley hired a young neighbor man to help with the farm work during the busy time of the year. According to her widow&#8217;s pension application, she also provided him with board in addition to a monthly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1903 the hired man was her son-in-law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several of my immigrant families in the 1880 census have a &#8220;hired man&#8221; who, upon further research, was discovered to be a relative of the wife or husband in the family. The relationship was not stated in the census. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some immigrants, if their financial situation warranted, would have hired help, someone unrelated who was from their same area of origin who they wanted to help after they &#8220;crossed the pond.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the hired help was simply an unrelated neighbor who was willing to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s up to the researcher to determine if the hired help had a connection to the family other than a financial one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1902, widow Nancy Rampley hired a young neighbor man to help with the farm work during the busy time of the year. According to her widow&#8217;s pension application, she also provided him with board in addition to a monthly. In 1903 the hired man was her son-in-law. Several of my immigrant families in the [&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-11536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536","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=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}