{"id":6274,"date":"2017-03-09T12:40:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2017-03-09T12:40:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:40:52","slug":"a-date-is-what-it-is-and-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/09\/a-date-is-what-it-is-and-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"A Date Is What It Is and No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always label dates of events precisely in your genealogical database.Call them what they are. \u00a0If the date is a birth date, then list it as a birth date. If the date is a baptismal date, then list is as a baptismal date&#8211;don&#8217;t use it as a birth date. The date of a marriage license is the date of the license, not the date of the marriage. The date of a marriage bond is the date of the bond, not the date of the marriage. The issuances of licenses and bonds does not mean the marriage necessarily happened. Most of the time it did, but there are always exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Being careful can reduce confusion later on.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike one distant relative of mine who, in families that practiced infant baptism, just decided it was easier to call all dates of baptism dates of birth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always label dates of events precisely in your genealogical database.Call them what they are. \u00a0If the date is a birth date, then list it as a birth date. If the date is a baptismal date, then list is as a baptismal date&#8211;don&#8217;t use it as a birth date. The date of a marriage license is [&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-6274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274","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=6274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}