{"id":4199,"date":"2016-01-16T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T21:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2016-01-16T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T21:54:13","slug":"born-apart-they-did-know-each-other-over-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/16\/born-apart-they-did-know-each-other-over-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Born Apart They Did Know Each Other Over There"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, I just assumed that a set of immigrant ancestors who married in Illinois in 1874 met in the United States–because it made sense. He immigrated in 1869 and she immigrated in 1873. They were born in villages 25 miles apart. Seemed logical that they met in the United States.<\/p>\n

Later research revealed they had known each other in Germany. When she was a young girl her father had moved from the village where she was born to the village where her future husband was born. He worked on the windmills in northern Germany and was more mobile than I had originally thought.<\/p>\n

Good to remember that people in Europe also move around as well.<\/p>\n

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For years, I just assumed that a set of immigrant ancestors who married in Illinois in 1874 met in the United States–because it made sense. He immigrated in 1869 and she immigrated in 1873. They were born in villages 25 miles apart. Seemed logical that they met in the United States. Later research revealed they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","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\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}