{"id":17620,"date":"2024-02-02T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17620"},"modified":"2024-02-02T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:04:03","slug":"every-date-every-place-every-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/every-date-every-place-every-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Date, Every Place, Every Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve reviewing a Mexican War pension application for a widow whose veteran husband was never divorced or widowed from his first wife. The claims made in the pension are confusing and not always consistent with other records. It&#8217;s claimed that the first wife died in the 1850s, but she&#8217;s living with her children for at least twenty years after that. Because the situation is confusing to begin with and because some of the statements are inconsistent, I&#8217;ve decided to make an chart with every date or event given in the pension application, including columns for: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Date<\/li><li>Place<\/li><li>Event<\/li><li>Witness<\/li><li>Comments\/Miscellaneous<\/li><li>Document\/Source<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This way I have extracted key items from the application and can sort them in a variety of ways. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reviewing a Mexican War pension application for a widow whose veteran husband was never divorced or widowed from his first wife. The claims made in the pension are confusing and not always consistent with other records. It&#8217;s claimed that the first wife died in the 1850s, but she&#8217;s living with her children for at [&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-17620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17620","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=17620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}