{"id":16238,"date":"2023-01-29T22:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T04:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16238"},"modified":"2023-01-29T22:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T04:47:56","slug":"fans-do-not-function-in-a-vacuum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/29\/fans-do-not-function-in-a-vacuum-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans do not Function in a Vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From a while back&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every event in your ancestor\u2019s life takes place in context. If your ancestor does something on a specific date, there may be other people doing that same thing on that same date:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>other couples marrying on the same date as your ancestor may be relatives or close friends<\/li><li>other individuals naturalizing on the same day as your ancestor may be relatives, friends, or associates<\/li><li>men who deserted the army on the same date as your ancestor may have had a connection to him<\/li><li>people who died on the same date as your ancestor may have had the same contagious illness<\/li><li>and so on.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The commonality of the date may mean nothing. It may also be significant. Just don\u2019t ignore it. Looking for&nbsp;\u201csame day people\u201d &nbsp;is an&nbsp;excellent way to locate your ancestor\u2019s friends, associates, and neighbors, what Elizabeth Shown Mills (author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1H8sTPT\">Evidence Explained<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/em>calls the FAN network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your ancestor didn\u2019t live in a vacuum. Using the FAN approach requires some air &lt;grin&gt;.<\/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&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here.&nbsp;<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>From a while back&#8230; Every event in your ancestor\u2019s life takes place in context. If your ancestor does something on a specific date, there may be other people doing that same thing on that same date: other couples marrying on the same date as your ancestor may be relatives or close friends other individuals naturalizing [&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-16238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238","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=16238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}