{"id":17016,"date":"2023-08-30T06:35:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17016"},"modified":"2023-08-30T06:35:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:35:24","slug":"formerly-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/30\/formerly-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Formerly Late"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A reference to \u201cJohn Smith, late of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,\u201d probably means that Smith used to reside in Bedford County but no longer does. It does not necessarily mean that Smith was deceased. \u201cJohn Smith, formerly of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,\u201d means that Smith used to live in Bedford County, but that he no longer does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occasionally &#8220;late&#8221; and &#8220;formerly&#8221; may refer to a name used by an individual, such as &#8220;Karen Smith, formerly Jones.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Deceased&#8221; usually means dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLate\u201d does not have to mean dead. Sometimes contextual clues will make that obvious and other times they will not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reference to \u201cJohn Smith, late of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,\u201d probably means that Smith used to reside in Bedford County but no longer does. It does not necessarily mean that Smith was deceased. \u201cJohn Smith, formerly of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,\u201d means that Smith used to live in Bedford County, but that he no longer does. [&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-17016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016","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=17016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}