{"id":2367,"date":"2010-08-04T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/04\/did-they-even-know-their-age"},"modified":"2010-08-04T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T11:45:00","slug":"did-they-even-know-their-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/04\/did-they-even-know-their-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Did They Even Know Their Age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible that your ancestor did not even really know how old she was. A deposition in a Civil War pension file I&#8217;m using for an upcoming issue of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Casefile Clues<\/span> begins with the individual stating that they aren&#8217;t really certain how old they are.<\/p>\n<p>Did your ancestor know when they were born? Are you assuming that they did?<\/p>\n<p>A partial copy of the deposition can be seen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casefileclues.com\/2010\/08\/not-certain-of-her-age.html\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Casefile Clues<\/span><\/a> blog.<\/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>It&#8217;s possible that your ancestor did not even really know how old she was. A deposition in a Civil War pension file I&#8217;m using for an upcoming issue of Casefile Clues begins with the individual stating that they aren&#8217;t really certain how old they are. Did your ancestor know when they were born? Are you [&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-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}