{"id":32421,"date":"2026-03-10T17:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32421"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:47:45","slug":"ignoring-boarders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/ignoring-boarders\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring Boarders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Never assume that those \u201cboarders\u201d in a census entry are merely strangers taken in for extra income. Those boarders could be relatives as well. Sometimes the census focuses on the \u201cfinancial\u201d relationship between the head of household and the resident and not the biological one. Always do a little snooping on those boarders living with your ancestor&#8211;they may have a connection via biology or marriage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boarders should not be confused with borders. Borders matter in genealogical research as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never assume that those \u201cboarders\u201d in a census entry are merely strangers taken in for extra income. Those boarders could be relatives as well. Sometimes the census focuses on the \u201cfinancial\u201d relationship between the head of household and the resident and not the biological one. Always do a little snooping on those boarders living with [&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-32421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32421","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=32421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}