{"id":30364,"date":"2025-10-22T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30364"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:23:40","slug":"where-born-where-from-and-where-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/where-born-where-from-and-where-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Born, Where From, and Where Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If your relative\u2019s \u201cplace of birth\u201d is incorrect in a document, consider if anyone in the record creation process (either your relative or the clerk) confused:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>where born;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>where from;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and where living.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s possible that your relative giving the information confused some of these pieces of information. It is possible the clerk got confused with the information your relative provided. Always transcribe a document exactly as written, but if things don\u2019t make sense or are inconsistent, consider that inadvertent confusion could have taken place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\u2026that information that\u2019s wrong, could be a clue as the incorrect location could have significance in your ancestor\u2019s life, even if it is \u201cwrong\u201d for the question it answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/3WcgwQb\">Download our Charts Webinar<\/a> or our <a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/42EBdb2\">Full-Text Searching at FamilySearch Webinar<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your relative\u2019s \u201cplace of birth\u201d is incorrect in a document, consider if anyone in the record creation process (either your relative or the clerk) confused: It\u2019s possible that your relative giving the information confused some of these pieces of information. It is possible the clerk got confused with the information your relative provided. Always [&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-30364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30364","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=30364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}