{"id":12859,"date":"2021-01-16T17:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12859"},"modified":"2021-01-16T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T23:16:00","slug":"keep-the-time-frame-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/16\/keep-the-time-frame-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Time Frame In Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/social-security-applications-names-not-complete.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/social-security-applications-names-not-complete.jpg 686w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/social-security-applications-names-not-complete-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of alternate names for anyone in the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/rvgexMG\">Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007<\/a>&#8221; at <em>Ancestry.com <\/em>may not contain every &#8220;alternate name&#8221; the person ever had&#8211;particularly if the person was a female who was married. It appears that Elsie&#8217;s Social Security file contains no information from before October of 1962. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case the likely reason the additional last name is not included is that this woman, who died as Elsie Cegas, had a first marriage that ended in the early 1930s&#8211;before the Social Security Act was enacted in 1935. Elsie may have married  Mr. Queen before she ever even applied for a Social Security number. It&#8217;s a good reminder to know when certain records were kept and when programs that required those records were in operation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some databases and records require all that &#8220;back history&#8221; and others do not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sometimes people do not always share everything they know either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of alternate names for anyone in the &#8220;Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007&#8221; at Ancestry.com may not contain every &#8220;alternate name&#8221; the person ever had&#8211;particularly if the person was a female who was married. It appears that Elsie&#8217;s Social Security file contains no information from before October of 1962. In this case [&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-12859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859","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=12859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}