{"id":13825,"date":"2021-07-24T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13825"},"modified":"2021-07-25T14:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T19:43:53","slug":"my-now-wife-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/24\/my-now-wife-3\/","title":{"rendered":"My &#8220;Now&#8221; Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nJust because your ancestor uses the phrase \u201cmy now wife\u201d in his will, it does not mean he had to have been married twice. A man might use the phrase to make it clear to whom a bequest was being made. If his will said \u201cto my now wife I leave my farm for her life and at her demise it to go to my children\u201d that meant his wife at the time he wrote his will. He might have been concerned that if he remarried and his \u201cthen wife\u201d married again&nbsp;that his real property might fall out of his family\u2019s hands.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because your ancestor uses the phrase \u201cmy now wife\u201d in his will, it does not mean he had to have been married twice. A man might use the phrase to make it clear to whom a bequest was being made. If his will said \u201cto my now wife I leave my farm for her [&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-13825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825","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=13825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}