{"id":18317,"date":"2024-03-22T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17840"},"modified":"2024-03-23T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T19:07:03","slug":"grantor-grantee-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/grantor-grantee-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Grantor-Grantee Connections?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bierman-trautvetter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bierman-trautvetter-1024x617.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bierman-trautvetter-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bierman-trautvetter-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bierman-trautvetter-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bierman-trautvetter.jpg 1354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1879, my uncle George Adolph Trautvetter, purchased 40 acres from Julius and Mary Bierman in Hancock County, Illinois. I recognized the names of the grantees immediately: Mary (who signed as Marie) was a first cousin to George Trautvetter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always do at least a cursory search of the other individuals involved in your relative&#8217;s land transactions. It was not uncommon for people to interact with extended family members in real estate transactions. These documents won&#8217;t name any relationships on the deed&#8211;unless they all happen to be heirs or already have a joint interest in the property. Deeds are about transferring title to property&#8211;not documenting family relationships (unless for reasons already mentioned). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1879, my uncle George Adolph Trautvetter, purchased 40 acres from Julius and Mary Bierman in Hancock County, Illinois. I recognized the names of the grantees immediately: Mary (who signed as Marie) was a first cousin to George Trautvetter. Always do at least a cursory search of the other individuals involved in your relative&#8217;s land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317","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=18317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}