{"id":35566,"date":"2026-08-10T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=35566"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:57:42","slug":"changing-for-the-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/changing-for-the-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing for the Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My 3rd great-grandmother\u2019s sister had a baby a few years before that same sister married her husband in the 1860s. Court records from the estate of the baby\u2019s grandfather (the father of the sisters) make it clear that the grandparents raised the baby\u2013not the baby\u2019s father nor the baby\u2019s mother and her subsequent husband. \u00a0The child grew to adulthood and have children of her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One researcher decided to change the &nbsp;child\u2019s date of birth, the couple\u2019s date of marriage, and the baby\u2019s last name in order to make it appear to be the husband\u2019s child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Report what you find, but don\u2019t change what you locate in order to present a different story from the reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 3rd great-grandmother\u2019s sister had a baby a few years before that same sister married her husband in the 1860s. Court records from the estate of the baby\u2019s grandfather (the father of the sisters) make it clear that the grandparents raised the baby\u2013not the baby\u2019s father nor the baby\u2019s mother and her subsequent husband. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566","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=35566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}