{"id":13807,"date":"2021-07-21T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13807"},"modified":"2021-07-21T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T02:13:00","slug":"merging-confusing-and-overlooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/merging-confusing-and-overlooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Merging, Confusing, and Overlooking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In families where the same name was used repeatedly, it can be easy to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>merge<\/strong>&nbsp;two different people with the same name into being the same person<\/li><li><strong>confuse<\/strong>&nbsp;two different people with the same name and assign the wrong record or event to the wrong person<\/li><li><strong>overlook<\/strong>yet another relative with the same name\u2013there could always be one more<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Correctly sifting out people with the same name can be difficult. Look at records that mention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>age<\/li><li>middle initials\u2013if they even have them<\/li><li>spouse<\/li><li>occupational clues<\/li><li>specific residence or residential clues<\/li><li>relatives<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And look at&nbsp;<em><strong>every record<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;you can get your hands on in the area where all these people with the same name lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In families where the same name was used repeatedly, it can be easy to: merge&nbsp;two different people with the same name into being the same person confuse&nbsp;two different people with the same name and assign the wrong record or event to the wrong person overlookyet another relative with the same name\u2013there could always be one [&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-13807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807","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=13807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}