{"id":30992,"date":"2025-12-12T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30992"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:12:04","slug":"they-be-a-foreigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/they-be-a-foreigner\/","title":{"rendered":"They Be a Foreigner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From a while back<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not assume that a reference to your relative as a \u201cforeigner\u201d means that they were from a different country. There are times and some records (<em>eg.\u00a0<\/em>some town records in New England) where a reference to someone as a foreigner may simply indicate that they are from a different town or state. My uncle\u2019s will was probated in Indiana in the 1980s and was needed to settle some property in Illinois where it was mentioned as a \u201cforeign will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a while back Do not assume that a reference to your relative as a \u201cforeigner\u201d means that they were from a different country. There are times and some records (eg.\u00a0some town records in New England) where a reference to someone as a foreigner may simply indicate that they are from a different town or [&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-30992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30992","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=30992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}