{"id":6270,"date":"2017-03-07T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T22:13:20","slug":"same-named-men-cousins-or-unclenephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/07\/same-named-men-cousins-or-unclenephew\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Named Men&#8211;Cousins or Uncle\/Nephew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often when two men born about the same time are living in the same area, the temptation is to hypothesize that they are cousins. That&#8217;s not the only possible scenario. They could be uncle and nephew or related in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>If the last name is common, always be open to the possibility that they are not related. However, if they are appearing on each other&#8217;s documents (as witnesses, near neighbors, etc.), then there&#8217;s probably a connection. Don&#8217;t just assume that they are cousins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often when two men born about the same time are living in the same area, the temptation is to hypothesize that they are cousins. That&#8217;s not the only possible scenario. They could be uncle and nephew or related in a different way. If the last name is common, always be open to the possibility that [&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-6270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270","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=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}