{"id":15911,"date":"2022-11-02T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T23:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15911"},"modified":"2022-11-04T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:35:42","slug":"a-mistake-or-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/02\/a-mistake-or-a-clue\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mistake or a Clue?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My aunt&#8217;s 1930-era death certificate has the wrong last name for her father. While the name is wrong, it does have a connection to the family&#8211;just not in the way indicated on the death certificate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 1900 census enumeration for three aunts in a different family includes the place of birth for their deceased mother. It is the wrong state&#8211;one in which their mother never lived. But it is the state where the mother&#8217;s parents were married a year before she was born. The location did have a connection to the family, just not as stated in the census enumeration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are times where wrong information is simply that: wrong. There are other times where wrong information is simply the right answer to a different question and an informant simply got confused for one reason or another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why it is important to locate as many sources as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My aunt&#8217;s 1930-era death certificate has the wrong last name for her father. While the name is wrong, it does have a connection to the family&#8211;just not in the way indicated on the death certificate. A 1900 census enumeration for three aunts in a different family includes the place of birth for their deceased mother. [&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-15911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15911","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=15911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}