{"id":17096,"date":"2023-09-24T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17096"},"modified":"2023-09-24T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T15:15:00","slug":"chronologies-and-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/chronologies-and-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronologies and Context"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My second great-grandmother lived with her maternal grandparents from about the age of eight until shortly before her marriage. I initially assumed it was because her own parents had so many children. While that may have been a part of it, there likely was more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain when she began living with her grandparents, but after learning more about her grandparents&#8217; family I discovered that there were several things that took place about the same time she began living with them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Her mother&#8217;s younger sister had a child whom the grandparents raised from birth. <\/li><li>All of her grandparents children were out of the house with their own families.<\/li><li>Her grandfather&#8217;s mother moved in with her grandparents. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Those three things may have played a role in why gg-grandma remained with her grandparents&#8211;or at least why she came to live with them initially. The grandmother may have needed a little extra support with household duties when her empty nest suddenly had an infant and a mother-in-law in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at her living with her grandparents made more sense when I looked at what was going on in the lives of her grandparents at the time. Context and chronology matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second great-grandmother lived with her maternal grandparents from about the age of eight until shortly before her marriage. I initially assumed it was because her own parents had so many children. While that may have been a part of it, there likely was more. I&#8217;m not certain when she began living with her grandparents, [&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-17096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096","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=17096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}