{"id":4583,"date":"2016-03-30T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2016-03-30T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T22:58:29","slug":"separating-a-family-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/30\/separating-a-family-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Separating a Family Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160330_164014.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4584\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4584\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160330_164014-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160330_164014\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160330_164014-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160330_164014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160330_164014-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160330_164014-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_20160330_164014.jpg 2020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>When encountering a family tradition, take each statement\u00a0suggested by the tradition and put it in one of two categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>probably generated a record<\/li>\n<li>most likely didn&#8217;t generate a record<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Grandma\u00a0sold sandwiches to support herself after her first husband accidentally drowned in the 1850s. Then she married Grandpa Haase and they moved to the farm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Probably generated a record:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The drowning may be mentioned in a local paper<\/li>\n<li>There may be estate or probate records related to the first husband&#8217;s death<\/li>\n<li>There may be a death record of the drowning&#8211;although in some US states this is too early for a death record<\/li>\n<li>There should be a marriage record to Grandpa Haase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The place to start looking for these records is where Grandma was believed to have been living in the 1850s.<\/p>\n<p>Probably did not generate a record:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sandwich selling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve simplified the analysis to keep this tip short, but this should get the general idea across.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget that family traditions may be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When encountering a family tradition, take each statement\u00a0suggested by the tradition and put it in one of two categories: probably generated a record most likely didn&#8217;t generate a record &#8220;Grandma\u00a0sold sandwiches to support herself after her first husband accidentally drowned in the 1850s. Then she married Grandpa Haase and they moved to the farm.&#8221; Probably [&hellip;]<\/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-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","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=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}