{"id":6521,"date":"2017-04-27T12:49:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2017-04-27T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:48:44","slug":"guardians-do-not-mean-both-parents-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/guardians-do-not-mean-both-parents-are-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians Do Not Mean Both Parents are Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child having a guardian does not mean that both of the child&#8217;s parents are deceased. For much of American history a guardian had to be appointed even if the father was dead and the mother was alive. A guardian could also be appointed if someone giving the child an inheritance did not want a parent (usually the father) having control over the property.<\/p>\n<p>An immigrant wanting to get married under the legal age would need a guardian to sign off on the marriage even if both parents were living overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Do not assume everyone with a guardian had no parents living.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\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><a href=\"http:\/\/searchtip.genealogytipoftheday.com\/_wp_link_placeholder\">\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A child having a guardian does not mean that both of the child&#8217;s parents are deceased. For much of American history a guardian had to be appointed even if the father was dead and the mother was alive. A guardian could also be appointed if someone giving the child an inheritance did not want a [&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-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","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=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}