{"id":1623,"date":"2012-04-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/12\/did-you-assume-they-were-close"},"modified":"2012-04-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:00:00","slug":"did-you-assume-they-were-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/12\/did-you-assume-they-were-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Assume They Were Close?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An affidavit in a Civil War pension file was made by two men with the same last name. No relationship was stated, but I concluded two things immediately:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the two men were somehow related<\/li>\n<li>the men lived near each other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>After all, it was a joint affidavit signed by both of them. They even lived in the same state.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Turns out that they lived 300 miles from each other. Thanks to my <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casefileclues.com\/\">Casefile Clues<\/a><\/i><\/b> proofreader for catching my rather glaring error.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An affidavit in a Civil War pension file was made by two men with the same last name. No relationship was stated, but I concluded two things immediately: the two men were somehow related the men lived near each other After all, it was a joint affidavit signed by both of them. They even lived [&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-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","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=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}