{"id":11665,"date":"2020-05-10T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T15:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2020-05-10T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T15:42:24","slug":"no-need-to-reinvent-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/10\/no-need-to-reinvent-the-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"No Need to Reinvent the Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently discovered the second husband my ancestor had and the children she had with him during the 1840s and early 1850s. I knew her first husband had died, but I had &#8220;lost&#8221; her after his death in the late 1830s. Her two children with her first husband were immigrants to the United States in the 1850s and are well documented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things I wanted to discover was when she, her second husband, and their children immigrated. Before I start looking for names in online databases and indexes, I need to do one thing: take a look at the manifests on which her two sons appeared (they immigrated separately) and see if the mother (and her crew with husband number two) are also on the manifest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They may not be, but it is a good first place to look before I start running through all the variant spellings of Schrader&#8211;the second husband&#8217;s last name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered the second husband my ancestor had and the children she had with him during the 1840s and early 1850s. I knew her first husband had died, but I had &#8220;lost&#8221; her after his death in the late 1830s. Her two children with her first husband were immigrants to the United States in [&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-11665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665","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=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}