{"id":29974,"date":"2025-09-30T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=29974"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:16:16","slug":"administrating-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/administrating-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrating Clues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/michael-trautvetter-administrator.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/michael-trautvetter-administrator.jpg 752w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/michael-trautvetter-administrator-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the connection the adminstrator of an estate has to the deceased is obvious or easy to determine. Sometimes it\u2019s not. It\u2019s always worth finding out if there is a connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, I assumed incorrectly that the administrator of the estate of Michael Trautvetter who died in Hancock County, Illinois, was a neighbor, friend, or interested creditor. I knew little about Trautvetter\u2019s family and, after a while, gave up on determining what the relationship was. Years later, after learning more about the family&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6279\">it was discovered that the administrator of the estate was the husband of a daughter of Trautvetter\u2019s sister<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sister had a marriage in Germany I was unaware of and&nbsp;<em>that&nbsp;<\/em>was the maiden name of the administrator\u2019s wife\u2013which meant nothing to me at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always ask yourself who that administrator is. There may be clues there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/3KwjEn7\"><em>Organizing Genealogy Information<\/em> starts soon&#8211;join us!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the connection the adminstrator of an estate has to the deceased is obvious or easy to determine. Sometimes it\u2019s not. It\u2019s always worth finding out if there is a connection. For years, I assumed incorrectly that the administrator of the estate of Michael Trautvetter who died in Hancock County, Illinois, was a neighbor, friend, [&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":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974","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=29974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}