{"id":4693,"date":"2016-04-18T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2016-04-18T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:35:19","slug":"contextual-clues-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/contextual-clues-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Contextual Clues Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The confirmation records of a church indicate that confirmations are always held in the spring&#8211;except for one that was performed in November of 1913. The confirmand was also slightly older than the typical \u00a0age. If I only look at the desired entry, I may miss that.<\/p>\n<p>The likely scenario here is that the individual being confirmed wanted to marrying someone who was a member of the congregation. But that is speculation and would need to be confirmed with actual research.<\/p>\n<p>Always look<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/confirmationondifferentdate.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4695\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4695\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/confirmationondifferentdate.jpg\" alt=\"confirmationondifferentdate\" width=\"566\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/confirmationondifferentdate.jpg 566w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/confirmationondifferentdate-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is sponsored by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">GenealogyBank<\/a><\/em>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;amp;kbid=9378&amp;amp;m=3\">search for your ancestors.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.genealogybank.com\/b.aspx?id=9378&amp;mm=3\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The confirmation records of a church indicate that confirmations are always held in the spring&#8211;except for one that was performed in November of 1913. The confirmand was also slightly older than the typical \u00a0age. If I only look at the desired entry, I may miss that. The likely scenario here is that the individual being [&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-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","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=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}