{"id":5273,"date":"2016-08-20T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2016-08-19T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:14:18","slug":"fans-do-not-function-in-a-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/20\/fans-do-not-function-in-a-vacuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Do Not Function in a Vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every event in your ancestor&#8217;s life takes place in context. If your ancestor does something on a specific date, there may be other people doing that same thing on that same date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>other couples marrying on the same date as your ancestor may be relatives or close friends<\/li>\n<li>other individuals naturalizing on the same day as your ancestor may be relatives, friends, or associates<\/li>\n<li>men who deserted the army on the same date as your ancestor may have had a connection to him<\/li>\n<li>people who died on the same date as your ancestor may have had the same contagious illness<\/li>\n<li>and so on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The commonality of the date may mean nothing. It may also be significant. Just don&#8217;t ignore it. Looking for\u00a0&#8220;same day people&#8221; \u00a0is an\u00a0excellent way to locate your ancestor&#8217;s friends, associates, and neighbors, what Elizabeth Shown Mills (author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1H8sTPT\">Evidence Explained<\/a>)\u00a0<\/em>calls the FAN network.<\/p>\n<p>Your ancestor didn&#8217;t live in a vacuum. Using the FAN approach requires some air &lt;grin&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every event in your ancestor&#8217;s life takes place in context. If your ancestor does something on a specific date, there may be other people doing that same thing on that same date: other couples marrying on the same date as your ancestor may be relatives or close friends other individuals naturalizing on the same day [&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-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","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=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}