{"id":16673,"date":"2023-05-22T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16673"},"modified":"2023-05-22T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T19:37:24","slug":"does-the-date-suggest-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/does-the-date-suggest-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Date Suggest Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Local courthouse records often contain references to an individual acknowledging a document, witnessing a document, being a bondsman, and the like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that these references indicate the person was alive on the date they knowledge a document, witnessed a document, were a bondsman, etc. Of course one needs to make certain there were not two contemporary people with the same name living in the same location, but sometimes these innocuous references can help extend a lifespan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe &#8220;extend a lifetime&#8221; should be replaced with getting a better estimate of their lifespan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At any rate, documents that suggest life may be crucial to your research depending upon what else was going on in the person&#8217;s lifetime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local courthouse records often contain references to an individual acknowledging a document, witnessing a document, being a bondsman, and the like. Keep in mind that these references indicate the person was alive on the date they knowledge a document, witnessed a document, were a bondsman, etc. Of course one needs to make certain there were [&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-16673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673","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=16673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}