{"id":16442,"date":"2023-03-23T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T02:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2023-03-23T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T02:03:24","slug":"when-there-shouldnt-be-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/when-there-shouldnt-be-a-record\/","title":{"rendered":"When There Shouldn&#8217;t Be a Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> For years, early in my research when I did not know better, I failed to look for a probate file for an ancestor because he was &#8220;dirt poor.&#8221; I knew you needed to have money (at least most of the time) in order to have a probate settlement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However several years into my research, I became a firm believer in the &#8220;look for anything and everything&#8221; camp. That&#8217;s why I looked for a probate file for my &#8220;dirt poor&#8221; ancestor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there he was in the probate records two times. How can you die twice and have two probate settlements?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out for the time period in question, insanity cases were filed with the probate and estate records. It was two insanity cases I had located for him, not probate cases. If I had never looked in estate files, I never would have found out information about his insanity hearings.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, early in my research when I did not know better, I failed to look for a probate file for an ancestor because he was &#8220;dirt poor.&#8221; I knew you needed to have money (at least most of the time) in order to have a probate settlement. However several years into my research, I [&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-16442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442","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=16442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}