{"id":14877,"date":"2022-03-08T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14877"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:15:40","slug":"real-estate-transactions-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/08\/real-estate-transactions-in-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Transactions in Context"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Put every event in context. If your ancestor sells property, ask yourself:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>how old was he?<\/li><li>was he getting ready to leave the area?<\/li><li>was he having financial problems?<\/li><li>was he selling to a child or other relative?<\/li><li>is he &#8220;setting his estate&#8221; before he dies?<\/li><li>did he buy other property about the same time?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t look at a record all by itself. Put it in the context of other things that were taking place in your ancestor&#8217;s life.  Some of these situations will result in other records&#8211;additional land deeds, court records, etc.. Selling all land before death may be the reason you cannot find a probate for him or her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put every event in context. If your ancestor sells property, ask yourself: how old was he? was he getting ready to leave the area? was he having financial problems? was he selling to a child or other relative? is he &#8220;setting his estate&#8221; before he dies? did he buy other property about the same time? [&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-14877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877","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=14877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}