{"id":638,"date":"2019-07-09T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2019-07-10T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:41:13","slug":"nancy-newman-rampley-and-her-first-cousin-nancy-newman-rampley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/09\/nancy-newman-rampley-and-her-first-cousin-nancy-newman-rampley\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy (Newman) Rampley and Her First Cousin Nancy (Newman) Rampley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some will bemoan the fact that people don&#8217;t cite their sources, research too quickly, and give nary a thought as to accurate and sound methodology. I understand that, but I also understand that many people just don&#8217;t want to read lengthy diatribes of that nature.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.com\/tombstones\/riley_nancy.jpg\" style=\"clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rootdig.com\/tombstones\/riley_nancy.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"150\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am a firm believer in all that I and I don&#8217;t want to read those diatribes either.<\/p>\n<p>Examples make it easier to see why one has to be careful when researching.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hancock County, Illinois brothers Riley Rampley (1835-1893) and James Rampley (1844-1913) married first cousins who were both named Nancy Newman.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Scott County, Iowa, first cousins George A. Freund (1858-1928) and George K. Freund (1854-1941) married women named Katharine Cawiezell and Catherine Schilling, respectively. Can you imagine how easy it is to get those two couples confused? After all, they were both George and &#8220;Catherine&#8221; Freund&#8230;.and we know that first names can be spelled incorrectly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I have more, but this makes the point.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And the confusion is even worse in frontier families where there are fewer records. The two examples shown above, while confusing, are relatively easy to sort out&#8211;if one takes the time to be concerned about that.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And doesn&#8217;t their information deserve to be recorded accurately? From what I know, Nancy (Newman) Rampley and Nancy (Newman) Rampley were confused with each other enough when they were alive&#8211;enough so that one spelled her name Nancie. Now that they&#8217;re dead, we owe it to them to record them correctly.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nancy, with the &#8220;y&#8221; at the end, is my great-great-grandmother.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some will bemoan the fact that people don&#8217;t cite their sources, research too quickly, and give nary a thought as to accurate and sound methodology. I understand that, but I also understand that many people just don&#8217;t want to read lengthy diatribes of that nature. I am a firm believer in all that I and [&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-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}