{"id":22944,"date":"2024-11-30T05:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T11:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=22944"},"modified":"2024-11-30T05:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T11:25:36","slug":"parenthetical-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/parenthetical-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenthetical Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Always read those \u201caside\u201d comments that occasionally get made in records. Clerks and records officials don\u2019t add them because they are bored. There is usually a reason and working to determine that reason could lead to additional discoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The example in the illustration indicated that the administrator of an estate in Illinois in 1903 wasn&#8217;t certain what type of title the deceased held in a certain piece of property, but that he believed it to be a fee-simple title. That uncertainty suggests I look into that piece of real estate and how the deceased came to acquire it. There could be a story there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if I don&#8217;t know what a fee-simple title is I need to look up that detail as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"821\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/parenthetical.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/parenthetical.jpg 821w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/parenthetical-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/parenthetical-768x485.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always read those \u201caside\u201d comments that occasionally get made in records. Clerks and records officials don\u2019t add them because they are bored. There is usually a reason and working to determine that reason could lead to additional discoveries. The example in the illustration indicated that the administrator of an estate in Illinois in 1903 wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-22944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22944","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}