{"id":6349,"date":"2017-03-23T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2017-03-23T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:52:18","slug":"dont-overlook-the-weakest-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/23\/dont-overlook-the-weakest-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Overlook the Weakest Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the ancestry of a Mary Dingman, born in Canada (probably Ontario) in the early 1810s. There are online trees taking her family back generations. The only problem is that there&#8217;s not really anything solid on her connection to her parents. That needs to be solved before I put all those earlier ancestors in my file.<\/p>\n<p>Since information on Mary herself is coming up short (she died in the 1850s in Illinois), I could trace her purported parents and siblings (and maybe even purported grandparents and cousins) in hopes of something turning up on her, but I need to wait to put them in her actual tree until I have a more solid connection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6350\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6350\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1850-mary-dingman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"866\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1850-mary-dingman.jpg 866w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1850-mary-dingman-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1850-mary-dingman-768x221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1850-mary-dingman-624x179.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary in 1850 in Winnebago, County, Illinois&#8212;who are her parents?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank. <\/em>Try their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the ancestry of a Mary Dingman, born in Canada (probably Ontario) in the early 1810s. There are online trees taking her family back generations. The only problem is that there&#8217;s not really anything solid on her connection to her parents. That needs to be solved before I put all those earlier [&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-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","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=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}