{"id":12946,"date":"2021-02-04T11:44:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2021-02-04T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:47:00","slug":"multiples-places-with-same-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/multiples-places-with-same-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiples Places with Same Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s Warren, Illinois, and it is not in Warren County, Illinois. There are numerous examples throughout the United States were a state has a county and a town with same name and the town is not located within that same-named county. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to mention townships that may have the same name that could be in other counties only confusing the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you have a place name, make certain as best you can to what type of place it is referring. Is it a town\/city, township, county, etc.? If your research is areas that have hundreds, townlands, parishes, etc. make certain you know what that name refers to as sometimes people were not creative and reused names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to confuse us later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s Warren, Illinois, and it is not in Warren County, Illinois. There are numerous examples throughout the United States were a state has a county and a town with same name and the town is not located within that same-named county. Not to mention townships that may have the same name that could be 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-12946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946","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=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}