{"id":16211,"date":"2023-01-23T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16211"},"modified":"2023-01-23T12:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:49:18","slug":"clues-in-a-summons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/23\/clues-in-a-summons\/","title":{"rendered":"Clues in a Summons?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fmli2-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/327182714_539645974780192_1087333734926288718_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=730e14&amp;_nc_ohc=Urt-vT_7GokAX8EnR-O&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fmli2-1.fna&amp;oh=00_AfAAA15S5u48WVDpLaHPUhkytoXth1UClLLI3gvB45C3XA&amp;oe=63D361E1\" alt=\"No photo description available.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If accessing a court case is a part of your genealogical research, make certain you have accessed any records of summons or &#8220;appearance in court&#8221; requests that were issued. These items, typically addressed to a local sheriff, may help indicate when and where someone was living in a specific location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the case of the illustration, the summons indicated that several of the defendants were not living in the state of Virginia in early 1830 when the summons was issued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day\u00a0<\/a><\/em>book is here.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">get our genealogy tip daily in your email for free, add your address here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If accessing a court case is a part of your genealogical research, make certain you have accessed any records of summons or &#8220;appearance in court&#8221; requests that were issued. These items, typically addressed to a local sheriff, may help indicate when and where someone was living in a specific location. In the case of the [&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-16211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211","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=16211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}