{"id":12068,"date":"2020-08-17T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2020-08-17T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:00:09","slug":"when-they-just-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/17\/when-they-just-appear\/","title":{"rendered":"When They Just Appear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It can be difficult to learn more about someone when the earliest record that can be located is a marriage and it seems like they just showed up from nowhere at the courthouse to get married and start making descendants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes that first appearance is the first time they&#8217;ve actually provided their name to the person writing it in a record. In earlier records (such as census) someone else provided their name, perhaps a parent, older sibling, etc. Is it possible that during that time they were living with a step-parent, foster parent, etc. and <em>their<\/em> last name was used for the &#8220;appearing ancestor?&#8221; That marriage where they &#8220;appear&#8221; could be the first record where they actually provided their name&#8211;that of their biological father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe they were living in the area for years before they got married&#8211;just under a last name that you are unaware of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be difficult to learn more about someone when the earliest record that can be located is a marriage and it seems like they just showed up from nowhere at the courthouse to get married and start making descendants. Sometimes that first appearance is the first time they&#8217;ve actually provided their name to 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-12068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068","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=12068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}