{"id":15893,"date":"2022-10-26T15:33:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2022-10-26T17:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:47:23","slug":"that-hint-with-the-same-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/26\/that-hint-with-the-same-name\/","title":{"rendered":"That &#8220;Hint&#8221; with the Same Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your ancestor named Bernard Dirks immigrated to Adams County, Illinois, in the 1850s where he lived until he died in the 1910s. He&#8217;s in 1860-1910 census in that county, buys land there, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ancestry serves up a naturalization for a Bernard Dirks in Tazewell County, Illinois, in the 1860s&#8211;suggesting it&#8217;s your guy. Do you assume it&#8217;s your guy? Here are some things you should do&#8211;in no particular order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Geography<\/strong>: Determine how far apart Adams and Tazewell Counties are. Locally did it: Is there a naturalization for Bernard Dirks in Adams County, Illinois?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Said so on census<\/strong>: Did the Adams County, Illinois, Bernard Dirks indicate he was naturalized in any extant census record? Is the year relatively consistent with the Tazewell date?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contemporary dude search<\/strong>: Look at census and other records in Tazewell County around the time the Bernard Dirks naturalized there. Does that name appear in those records&#8211;during that time when your guy is in Adams County? That would really suggest there were two dudes in different places with the same (or similar) names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just some thoughts.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your ancestor named Bernard Dirks immigrated to Adams County, Illinois, in the 1850s where he lived until he died in the 1910s. He&#8217;s in 1860-1910 census in that county, buys land there, etc. Ancestry serves up a naturalization for a Bernard Dirks in Tazewell County, Illinois, in the 1860s&#8211;suggesting it&#8217;s your guy. Do you assume [&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-15893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893","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=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}