{"id":4821,"date":"2016-05-11T08:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T13:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2016-05-11T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T04:44:08","slug":"mixed-up-the-year-and-the-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/11\/mixed-up-the-year-and-the-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Up the Year and the Age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reference to Sophia (Derle) Trautvetter in her son&#8217;s biography says she died at the age of 77. It should have said she <strong>died in 1877<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a relatively easy mistake to make, and\u00a0to a genealogist it makes a difference. Sometimes errors are simply errors and nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes it is helpful to try and determine if there&#8217;s a relatively easy explanation for the error. Becomes once in a while that&#8217;s all it is.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1877.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4822\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4822\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1877.jpg\" alt=\"1877\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1877.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1877-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank<\/a><\/em>\u2014<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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">search for your ancestors.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reference to Sophia (Derle) Trautvetter in her son&#8217;s biography says she died at the age of 77. It should have said she died in 1877. It&#8217;s a relatively easy mistake to make, and\u00a0to a genealogist it makes a difference. Sometimes errors are simply errors and nothing more. And sometimes it is helpful to try [&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-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","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=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}