{"id":1947,"date":"2011-08-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/07\/does-dating-make-your-dominos-not-line-up"},"modified":"2011-08-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T10:00:00","slug":"does-dating-make-your-dominos-not-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/07\/does-dating-make-your-dominos-not-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Dating Make Your Dominos Not Line Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When working out any lineage, especially a new one, keep approximate years of birth in mind for the parents, children, grandparents, etc. and always be asking yourself “Could these people be old enough to have these children\/grandchildren?” <\/p>\n

It won’t help you catch every mistake, but there will be the occasional one. <\/p>\n

I thought the ages for a recent “theory” of my own did not fit, but realized that a man born in 1770 could have a son born in 1788 and that son could easily have also had a son born in 1819. <\/p>\n

Sometimes the ages will make you realize the people you think fit together, do not.<\/p>\n

And other times it means you’ve got more research to do.<\/p>\n

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When working out any lineage, especially a new one, keep approximate years of birth in mind for the parents, children, grandparents, etc. and always be asking yourself “Could these people be old enough to have these children\/grandchildren?” It won’t help you catch every mistake, but there will be the occasional one. I thought the ages […]<\/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-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}