{"id":12685,"date":"2020-12-15T07:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T13:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2020-12-16T07:55:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:55:44","slug":"if-you-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/15\/if-you-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Estimate&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;then give a reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just read an article in a genealogical periodical where many of the individuals listed were had a year of birth as &#8220;born say&#8217; and then the year. Some individuals had a place of birth that was &#8220;probably born in&#8221; and then a location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be a valid reason for the year of birth that was estimated. There may have been a valid reason to believe the individual was born in a certain location. But those reasons should be provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Thomas Smith was born in say 1800 based upon his being married in 1825.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Susan Anderson was probably born in Jackson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, based upon her her father owning a forty acre farm there at the time of her birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone else may disagree with my conclusion, but at least there is a clearly stated reason for it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;then give a reason. I just read an article in a genealogical periodical where many of the individuals listed were had a year of birth as &#8220;born say&#8217; and then the year. Some individuals had a place of birth that was &#8220;probably born in&#8221; and then a location. There may be a valid reason for [&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-12685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685","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=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}