{"id":15296,"date":"2022-06-05T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15296"},"modified":"2022-06-05T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T14:47:24","slug":"married-on-a-kin-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/05\/married-on-a-kin-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Married on a Kin Visit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ufkes-gerhard-nebraska.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ufkes-gerhard-nebraska.jpg 745w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ufkes-gerhard-nebraska-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If your ancestor went somewhere &#8220;out of the blue&#8221; to get married and married someone from that &#8220;out of the blue&#8221; location, have you determined why they went there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might not have been to find a spouse. I discovered an uncle worked in Nebraska for several months on a farm near where his cousin lived. The uncle didn&#8217;t meet his wife while in Nebraska, but it very easily could have happened. In this case, I already knew about the cousin and where he lived so his name and residence were not a surprise to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This newspaper reference has got me to thinking about other relatives who married someone they had met a distance from home&#8211;and I had not figured out what the connection was. In some families attending college can explain these marriages. In most of my families during the pre-World War II era college was not the answer. Work can explain some as well. If there was a marriage in an unexpected location, make certain to pay attention to the witnesses on that marriage. They may be relatives of whom you are not aware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your ancestor went somewhere &#8220;out of the blue&#8221; to get married and married someone from that &#8220;out of the blue&#8221; location, have you determined why they went there? It might not have been to find a spouse. I discovered an uncle worked in Nebraska for several months on a farm near where his cousin [&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-15296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296","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=15296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}