{"id":4697,"date":"2016-04-19T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2019-06-07T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:40:29","slug":"fractions-are-your-genealogical-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/fractions-are-your-genealogical-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractions are Your Genealogical Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fractions are a genealogist&#8217;s friend because they are often clues to an inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>The children of Paul Freund in Davenport, Iowa, owned two-thirds of his farm, his cows, his wagon, and his calves upon his death. That&#8217;s the items listed in the inventory that is a part of their guardianship. Paul died with no will (intestate) and state law dictated that the widow received a third of the property with the rest going to his children.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how they ended up with a two-thirds interest. The probate documents don&#8217;t explain how they got the two-thirds interest as court records in this time period don&#8217;t often explain things that stem from state statute or common law.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why a general understanding of probate procedures is helpful.<\/p>\n<p>And why fractions are your genealogical friend: they contain clues.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/two-thirdsa.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4698\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4698\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/two-thirdsa.jpg\" alt=\"two-thirdsa\" width=\"700\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/two-thirdsa.jpg 700w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/two-thirdsa-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/two-thirdsa-624x490.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fractions are a genealogist&#8217;s friend because they are often clues to an inheritance. The children of Paul Freund in Davenport, Iowa, owned two-thirds of his farm, his cows, his wagon, and his calves upon his death. That&#8217;s the items listed in the inventory that is a part of their guardianship. Paul died with no will [&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-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","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=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}