{"id":5856,"date":"2016-12-11T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2016-12-11T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:37:17","slug":"are-they-lumping-all-the-children-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/11\/are-they-lumping-all-the-children-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Are They Lumping All the Children Together?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obituaries, online compilations, and other materials may list as &#8220;children&#8221; individuals who are actually the person&#8217;s biological children, their step-children, their spouse&#8217;s step-children from a previous marriage, etc. There is also the possibility that their biological children do not all share the same biological parent.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful entering these names and the relationships in your database until you have a better idea of who is the parent of whom. Indicating that your relative raised non-biological children as their own is advised though as it helps to explain the connections that exist among people. In some families it is better to write a summary of the individuals and relationships involved before forcing that data into a genealogical relationship database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituaries, online compilations, and other materials may list as &#8220;children&#8221; individuals who are actually the person&#8217;s biological children, their step-children, their spouse&#8217;s step-children from a previous marriage, etc. There is also the possibility that their biological children do not all share the same biological parent. Be careful entering these names and the relationships in your [&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-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","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=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}