{"id":15282,"date":"2022-06-01T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15282"},"modified":"2022-06-01T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:34:11","slug":"witness-to-events-forty-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/01\/witness-to-events-forty-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness to Events Forty Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Military widow&#8217;s pension application files often contain evidence regarding their marriage to the soldier. If the widow is fortunate, she has (or can easily get) a certified copy of her marriage record. In other cases, the widow may have to rely on testimony of individuals who were present at her wedding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the marriage took place forty years before the statement and a significant distance from where the widow resided, ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Why was this person at the wedding&#8211;were they a relative?<\/li><li>How did the widow find this person all these years later&#8211;did they keep in touch?<\/li><li>Are they still living near each other (but in a different state) all these years later. Why?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s great when a deposition or affidavit from a witness provides evidence of your ancestor&#8217;s date and place of marriage&#8211;or even their maiden name. But don&#8217;t let your excitement over locating that information cause you to overlook another potentially big clue: the witness themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military widow&#8217;s pension application files often contain evidence regarding their marriage to the soldier. If the widow is fortunate, she has (or can easily get) a certified copy of her marriage record. In other cases, the widow may have to rely on testimony of individuals who were present at her wedding. If the marriage took [&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-15282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15282","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=15282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}