{"id":1637,"date":"2012-04-04T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/04\/those-ages-could-be-correct"},"modified":"2012-04-04T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:23:00","slug":"those-ages-could-be-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/04\/those-ages-could-be-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Ages Could Be Correct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t always assume that census ages are incorrect. I found the entry for my children&#8217;s grandmother in 1940 and I thought there had to be a mistake&#8211;as I knew there were no twins in the family and their children were listed with ages:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"background-color:white;color:#222222;font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;margin:.5em 0;padding:0 2.5em;\">\n<li style=\"margin:0 0 .25em;padding:0;\">Two 7 year olds<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0 0 .25em;padding:0;\">One 5 year old<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0 0 .25em;padding:0;\">One 4 year old<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0 0 .25em;padding:0;\">One 2 year old<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0 0 .25em;padding:0;\">One 1 year old<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin:0 0 .25em;padding:0;\">One under a year&#8211;7\/12<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"color:#222222;font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"line-height:18px;\">The ages were correct&#8211;just a lot of children close together and the census date combined with the birthdates didn&#8217;t help either.<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/this-is-part-of-1940-census-enumeration.html\">You can see the image here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/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>Don&#8217;t always assume that census ages are incorrect. I found the entry for my children&#8217;s grandmother in 1940 and I thought there had to be a mistake&#8211;as I knew there were no twins in the family and their children were listed with ages: Two 7 year olds One 5 year old One 4 year old [&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-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}