{"id":23960,"date":"2025-01-28T18:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:25:29","slug":"reasons-why-its-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/reasons-why-its-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons Why it’s Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“It’s wrong,”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s wrong!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s WRONG!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s <\/a>not sufficient to simply say something is wrong or to scream it. You’ve got to have a reason. The last name of one of the heirs to whom a notice was mailed in a 1913 probate case is wrong. It’s not wrong just because I say so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s wrong because there was no heir to the estate named William Samuel Ewing. In other probate documents, the names of the heirs are all the same as in this affidavit–except the last heir is William Samuel Neill (not Ewing as shown here). William J. Ewing was William Samuel Neill’s guardian and was not an heir in his own right–he was being notified in his capacity as guardian of William Samuel Neill (incorrectly listed as William Samuel Ewing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is easy to see how the clerk could make the mistake. After all William J. Ewing was the guardian of William Samuel Neill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a simple enough error to catch and a simple enough one to show why it’s wrong. But it’s not wrong just because I say so. It’s wrong because when compared to the known list of heirs, the known family structure, and other documents in the file it’s inconsistent with what is known and what is stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever you think something is wrong…it’s always advised to find documentation to back that up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just in case you are wrong. Because it can happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It’s wrong,” “It’s wrong!” “It’s WRONG!” It’s not sufficient to simply say something is wrong or to scream it. You’ve got to have a reason. The last name of one of the heirs to whom a notice was mailed in a 1913 probate case is wrong. It’s not wrong just because I say so. It’s […]<\/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":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960","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=23960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}