{"id":14601,"date":"2022-01-09T08:43:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14601"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:57:48","slug":"a-new-4th-great-grandfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/09\/a-new-4th-great-grandfather\/","title":{"rendered":"A New 4th Great-grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"938\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image.png 938w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image-768x241.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><figcaption>Rufus D. Stevens in the 1850 census<br>St. Clair County, Michigan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of work and some false starts, I was able to add the names of a new-to-me fourth-great-grandfather and his parents to my family tree.  It&#8217;s been many years since I had a new name to add and it&#8217;s time for me to go back and do some of those beginning things when I&#8217;ve located a new ancestor.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Briefly those things are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>familiarize <\/em>myself with the geographic area in which the families lived, the history, and the extant sources. <\/li><li><em>search <\/em>the genealogical literature for articles on these families.<\/li><li><em>review <\/em>my autosomal DNA matches to see if there are trees that include these families. <\/li><li><em>evaluate <\/em>information on these &#8220;new&#8221; ancestors to make certain that the information makes sense, is consistent, and does not have gaps in logic or reasoning.<\/li><li><em>update <\/em>my genealogical files to include the new information.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Help support&nbsp;<em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>&nbsp;by visiting any of the following sites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Try a&nbsp;<em>GenealogyBank&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">Genealogy Search<\/a>&nbsp;to see what you find.<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-100334863-13671424\">Newspapers.com<\/a><\/em><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/K98DNOx\">AncestryDNA&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/K98DNOx\">offers.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/\">Books on Michael\u2019s Genealogy Shelf<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/webinars2021\/\">My webinars<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of work and some false starts, I was able to add the names of a new-to-me fourth-great-grandfather and his parents to my family tree. It&#8217;s been many years since I had a new name to add and it&#8217;s time for me to go back and do some of those beginning things when I&#8217;ve [&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-14601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14601","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=14601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}