{"id":5368,"date":"2016-09-03T18:14:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T23:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2016-09-03T18:14:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T23:14:59","slug":"dont-speculate-educate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/03\/dont-speculate-educate\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Speculate&#8211;Educate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I mentioned to someone that my grandmother was baptized at the age of five into a church that practice infant baptism, their immediate response was that \u00a0&#8220;the family had to wait for a pastor to marry them.&#8221; There was no convincing this person that their assumption was incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>The church where Grandma was baptized had a regular pastor from the 1880s through the present day. Grandma was born in 1910.<\/p>\n<p>While the area where Grandma lived in the 1910-1915 time frame was rural, it was not isolated and was fairly well settled. In fact there were more people living there then that there are today.<\/p>\n<p>Make certain your assumptions are time and context appropriate. Waiting for a preacher of the &#8220;right denomination&#8221; might have been necessary in 1865 Nebraska. It was not the case in 1910 Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>It never hurts to educate yourself and learn about your ancestor&#8217;s context.<\/p>\n<p>It might not hurt to make assumptions, but it can sometimes give you genealogical headaches when you do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I mentioned to someone that my grandmother was baptized at the age of five into a church that practice infant baptism, their immediate response was that \u00a0&#8220;the family had to wait for a pastor to marry them.&#8221; There was no convincing this person that their assumption was incorrect. The church where Grandma was baptized [&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-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","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=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}