{"id":5453,"date":"2016-09-17T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2016-09-17T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:54:52","slug":"do-you-read-the-entire-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/17\/do-you-read-the-entire-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Read the Entire Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suit to partition the estate of a Bernard Dirks in Adams County, Illinois, was not initiated until 1924&#8211;after his wife died. A &#8220;quick reading&#8221; of the papers located a list of heirs as of 1924. Bernard died in 1913. A careful re-reading of the court papers found a reference to \u00a0grandson who survived Bernard, but who died without descendants of his own when Bernard&#8217;s wife, Heipke, died in 1924. This grandson had no descendants of his own and did not have to be listed in the 1924 final list of heirs.<\/p>\n<p>But buried in the court filings was a list of Bernard&#8217;s heirs as of 1913&#8211;there was the grandson, along with a notation that he died before his grandmother in 1924 leaving no descendants of his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suit to partition the estate of a Bernard Dirks in Adams County, Illinois, was not initiated until 1924&#8211;after his wife died. A &#8220;quick reading&#8221; of the papers located a list of heirs as of 1924. Bernard died in 1913. A careful re-reading of the court papers found a reference to \u00a0grandson who survived Bernard, [&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-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453","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=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}