{"id":2150,"date":"2011-02-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/13\/what-does-it-mean-when-i-say-im-50-years-old"},"modified":"2011-02-13T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T11:00:00","slug":"what-does-it-mean-when-i-say-im-50-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/13\/what-does-it-mean-when-i-say-im-50-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean When I Say I&#8217;m 50 Years Old?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assume your ancestor is correct when, on 5 January 1850, he says he is 50 years old. What does that mean? <\/p>\n<p>He could have just turned 50 that very day, meaning he was born 5 January 1800. That would be the very youngest he could be on 5 January 1800&#8212;50 years and no days. <\/p>\n<p>He could turn 51 the very next day, meaning he was born 6 January 1799. That would be the very oldest he could be on 5 January 1800 and still be 50, one day shy of his 51st birthday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assume your ancestor is correct when, on 5 January 1850, he says he is 50 years old. What does that mean? He could have just turned 50 that very day, meaning he was born 5 January 1800. That would be the very youngest he could be on 5 January 1800&#8212;50 years and no days. He [&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-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","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=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}