{"id":15915,"date":"2022-11-04T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2022-11-05T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T20:07:39","slug":"my-now-wife-when-i-signed-this-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/my-now-wife-when-i-signed-this-document\/","title":{"rendered":"My Now Wife&#8211;When I Signed this Document"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><i>from our archives&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because your ancestor uses the phrase \u201cmy now wife\u201d in his will, it does not mean he had to have been married twice. A man might use the phrase to make it clear to whom a bequest was being made. If his will said \u201cto my now wife I leave my farm and after her demise it to go to our children\u201d that meant his wife at the time he wrote his will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phrase &#8220;property is to go to the heirs of my now wife&#8221; would have a similar import. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from our archives&#8230; Just because your ancestor uses the phrase \u201cmy now wife\u201d in his will, it does not mean he had to have been married twice. A man might use the phrase to make it clear to whom a bequest was being made. If his will said \u201cto my now wife I leave my [&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-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","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=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}