{"id":6189,"date":"2017-02-15T09:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:09:13","slug":"time-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/15\/time-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The couple waited to get married because they were on the frontier and there were no preachers to marry them.&#8221; \u00a0In Ohio in the 1810s that could happen. That probably does not explain the situation in Illinois in 1890.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The county boundary was always changing and that&#8217;s why I am having research difficulties.&#8221; In Virginia in the 1600s, that could be the problem. That&#8217;s probably not the difficulty in Iowa in 1910. (County boundaries can always change, but tend to happen more when territory is frontier and in the early stages of being settled.)<\/p>\n<p>Any justification for not finding a record should make sense in the time period and the location in which the ancestor lived. Just because someone else used that &#8220;excuse&#8221; for why they could not locate something does not mean it necessarily applies to your situation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The couple waited to get married because they were on the frontier and there were no preachers to marry them.&#8221; \u00a0In Ohio in the 1810s that could happen. That probably does not explain the situation in Illinois in 1890. &#8220;The county boundary was always changing and that&#8217;s why I am having research difficulties.&#8221; In Virginia [&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-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","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=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}