{"id":32199,"date":"2026-02-13T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32199"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:04:40","slug":"first-and-last-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/first-and-last-children\/","title":{"rendered":"First and Last Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If things \u201cdon\u2019t quite make sense,\u201d consider that a couple\u2019s first child might not have been both of theirs or might have been born less than the \u201cnecessary\u201d time after their marriage. Their last child, particularly if born significantly after the couple\u2019s other children, might have actually been their grandchild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the time a couple\u2019s children are theirs, but there are times where other possibilities could be the reality:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the husband or wife had a previous marriage or relationship;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the couple adopted the child of a sibling or other family member;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the couple raised their grandchild;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the couple took in the orphaned child of a neighbor couple;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also possible that the child you think is the first child is not even the first child at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If things \u201cdon\u2019t quite make sense,\u201d consider that a couple\u2019s first child might not have been both of theirs or might have been born less than the \u201cnecessary\u201d time after their marriage. Their last child, particularly if born significantly after the couple\u2019s other children, might have actually been their grandchild. Most of the time a [&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-32199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32199","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=32199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}