{"id":5867,"date":"2016-12-14T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2016-12-14T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:34:09","slug":"always-look-for-a-post-death-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/14\/always-look-for-a-post-death-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Look for a Post-Death Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never assume that a widowed relative did not marry again after their spouse died. Always search the records. One reason that female ancestors &#8220;disappear&#8221; after their husbands die is that they are living with a subsequent husband under a new last name.<\/p>\n<p>Widowers or widows with young children are more likely to marry again, frequently for financially pragmatic reasons. Some may wait until &#8220;late in life&#8221; to marry again&#8211;at a stage in their life when descendants do not think to look for a marriage record.<\/p>\n<p>Records of later marriages may give detail on the ancestor not given in their initial marriage record.<\/p>\n<p>If the subsequent marriage does not go well and results in no children, reference to it may not be made in an obituary, death notice, tombstone, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never assume that a widowed relative did not marry again after their spouse died. Always search the records. One reason that female ancestors &#8220;disappear&#8221; after their husbands die is that they are living with a subsequent husband under a new last name. Widowers or widows with young children are more likely to marry again, frequently [&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-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867","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=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}