{"id":16528,"date":"2023-04-13T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16528"},"modified":"2023-04-13T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:56:55","slug":"an-after-1830-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/an-after-1830-death\/","title":{"rendered":"An &#8220;After 1830&#8221; Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>From a while back&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last record I have for an ancestor is their enumeration in the 1830 census. Years ago I entered \u201cdied after 1830\u201d as their date of death. The more I got to thinking about it, the more I realized that the ancestor died after the 1830 census enumeration was taken in the area where they were believed to have been living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And they could have died in 1830\u2013just after the enumeration was taken and before the year ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Probably the better approach for me to take is to indicate that the last record I have for that ancestor is their 1830 census enumeration. It\u2019s possible that they were overlooked in 1840 or hidden in one of those unnamed tick marks in that enumeration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One needs to take care when entering any approximate date of an event in a genealogical database and the notes or sources for those approximate dates need to be twofold: the source and the reason. The reason may be obvious and simple to state or it may not. It all depends on the source and what it says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exact dates need sources. Inexact dates need sources and reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a while back&#8230; The last record I have for an ancestor is their enumeration in the 1830 census. Years ago I entered \u201cdied after 1830\u201d as their date of death. The more I got to thinking about it, the more I realized that the ancestor died after the 1830 census enumeration was taken in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528","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=16528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}