{"id":30765,"date":"2025-11-25T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30765"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:55:16","slug":"bequeathed-to-the-children-of-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/bequeathed-to-the-children-of-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bequeathed to the Children of my Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 1812 will of James Rampley in Harford County, Maryland, gives real estate to \u201csurviving children of my daughter, Nancy Beaty.\u201d A superficial read of the will may lead one to conclude that Nancy is dead. She\u2019s not. Her husband is not dead either. There\u2019s a little more to it than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Rampley also indicated in his will that his son James Rampley was to have the use and occupation of the said land during the natural life of Nancy Beaty for her maintenance and that of her children. \u201cMy son in law John Beaty to have no claim right or title to the said land or the profits thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After her death, title was to be passed to her children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never jump to conclusions and always read the entire document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s probably something going on there not mentioned in the will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>We just released the recording and handout for common name searching at FamilySearch&#8217;s full-text search presentation.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/04\/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar\/\">Details on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1812 will of James Rampley in Harford County, Maryland, gives real estate to \u201csurviving children of my daughter, Nancy Beaty.\u201d A superficial read of the will may lead one to conclude that Nancy is dead. She\u2019s not. Her husband is not dead either. There\u2019s a little more to it than that. James Rampley also [&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-30765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765","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=30765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}