{"id":30846,"date":"2025-11-30T08:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30846"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:38:37","slug":"what-has-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/what-has-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"What Has to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first son was named for this, the second son was named for that, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that these patterns are trends and social customs that your ancestor might have followed. They are not law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your ancestor does not&nbsp;<em>have<\/em>&nbsp;to follow any of these \u201csocial mores.\u201d They might,&nbsp; but they might not. What your ancestor does have to do is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Figure out how to get born.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Figure out how to get married (or at least reproduce)\u2013this means living that long<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leave behind at least one record\u2013although this seems optional sometimes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We are defining \u201cancestor\u201d as someone from whom you descend\u2013that\u2019s why we say they have to reproduce even if they don\u2019t get married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dying usually happens whether your ancestor planned for it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first son was named for this, the second son was named for that, etc. Keep in mind that these patterns are trends and social customs that your ancestor might have followed. They are not law. Your ancestor does not&nbsp;have&nbsp;to follow any of these \u201csocial mores.\u201d They might,&nbsp; but they might not. What your ancestor [&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-30846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846","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=30846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}