{"id":15247,"date":"2022-05-21T20:13:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T01:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2022-05-21T20:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T01:13:28","slug":"multiple-informants-on-same-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/21\/multiple-informants-on-same-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Informants on Same Document?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even if a doctor is the only one who actually signed a birth certificate, there were other informants. The doctor (or midwife) did not provide&nbsp;<em><strong>all<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;the information from their first hand, direct knowledge. The doctor or midwife would have probably known the details of the birth (date, time, place, mother, etc.) The parents likely provided their names and any other information about themselves listed on the certificate. The difficulty is that in records with probable multiple informants, it\u2019s impossible to know exactly who provided which pieces of information. That doesn\u2019t mean the information is correct or incorrect\u2013it\u2019s just that we need to think about who most likely provided it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And some of those pieces of information we won\u2019t be able to know 100% who provided it\u2013we weren\u2019t there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you are insisting you were there when your great-grandmother\u2019s birth was recorded, it may be time to focus on things other than genealogy for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if a doctor is the only one who actually signed a birth certificate, there were other informants. The doctor (or midwife) did not provide&nbsp;all&nbsp;the information from their first hand, direct knowledge. The doctor or midwife would have probably known the details of the birth (date, time, place, mother, etc.) The parents likely provided their [&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-15247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247","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=15247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}