{"id":17295,"date":"2023-11-12T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17295"},"modified":"2023-11-12T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T03:02:13","slug":"separating-a-family-tradition-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/12\/separating-a-family-tradition-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Separating a Family Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From a while back&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When encountering a family tradition, take each statement&nbsp;suggested by the tradition and put it in one of two categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>probably generated a record<\/li><li>most likely didn\u2019t generate a record<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGrandma&nbsp;sold sandwiches to support herself after her first husband accidentally drowned in the 1850s. Then she married Grandpa Haase and they moved to the farm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably generated a record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The drowning may be mentioned in a local paper<\/li><li>There may be estate or probate records related to the first husband\u2019s death<\/li><li>There may be a death record of the drowning\u2013although in some US states this is too early for a death record<\/li><li>There should be a marriage record to Grandpa Haase<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The place to start looking for these records is where Grandma was believed to have been living in the 1850s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably did not generate a record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>sandwich selling<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve simplified the analysis to keep this tip short, but this should get the general idea across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t forget that family traditions may be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a while back&#8230; When encountering a family tradition, take each statement&nbsp;suggested by the tradition and put it in one of two categories: probably generated a record most likely didn\u2019t generate a record \u201cGrandma&nbsp;sold sandwiches to support herself after her first husband accidentally drowned in the 1850s. Then she married Grandpa Haase and they moved [&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-17295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17295","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=17295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}