{"id":17597,"date":"2024-01-27T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17597"},"modified":"2024-01-27T21:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T03:14:23","slug":"fans-do-not-operate-in-vacuums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/fans-do-not-operate-in-vacuums\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Do Not Operate in Vacuums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every event in your ancestor\u2019s life takes place in context. If your ancestor does something on a specific date, there may be other people doing that same thing on that same date:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>other couples marrying on the same date as your ancestor may be relatives or close friends<\/li><li>other individuals naturalizing on the same day as your ancestor may be relatives, friends, or associates<\/li><li>men who deserted the army on the same date as your ancestor may have had a connection to him<\/li><li>people who died on the same date as your ancestor may have had the same contagious illness<\/li><li>and so on.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The commonality of the date may mean nothing. It may also be significant. Just don\u2019t ignore it. Looking for&nbsp;\u201csame day people\u201d &nbsp;is an&nbsp;excellent way to locate your ancestor\u2019s friends, associates, and neighbors, what Elizabeth Shown Mills (author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1H8sTPT\">Evidence Explained<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/em>calls the FAN network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your ancestor didn\u2019t live in a vacuum. Using the FAN approach requires some air &lt;grin&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every event in your ancestor\u2019s life takes place in context. If your ancestor does something on a specific date, there may be other people doing that same thing on that same date: other couples marrying on the same date as your ancestor may be relatives or close friends other individuals naturalizing on the same day [&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-17597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597","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=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}