{"id":13149,"date":"2021-03-14T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2021-03-14T09:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:16:03","slug":"getting-contemporary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/getting-contemporary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Union Civil War widow&#8217;s pension application indicated the soldier died in Memphis, Tennessee. Another document in the pension application indicated the soldier died in Springfield, Illinois. The soldier&#8217;s compiled military service record also indicated he died in Springfield. The document in the service record was created close to the time of his death&#8211;within a few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s more contemporary to the event than the documents in the pension file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally speaking, for there are always exceptions, one wants to get a document that was created as closely as possible to the event that document references. That&#8217;s true from a time standpoint and a geographic standpoint.  Of course, people can always make a mistake in any record for a variety of reasons. That&#8217;s true for documents recorded moments after something happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/reEOeAd\" target=\"_blank\">Check out Ancestry.com\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day DNA sales.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Civil War widow&#8217;s pension application indicated the soldier died in Memphis, Tennessee. Another document in the pension application indicated the soldier died in Springfield, Illinois. The soldier&#8217;s compiled military service record also indicated he died in Springfield. The document in the service record was created close to the time of his death&#8211;within a [&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-13149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149","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=13149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}