{"id":6616,"date":"2017-05-11T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2017-05-11T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:33:15","slug":"the-importance-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/11\/the-importance-of-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Everything&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pension file for Civil War widow Nancy Rampley is rather large and contains numerous applications and appeals. For that reason, many of the petitions are repetitive.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>In one application for a pension Nancy indicated that she was &#8220;married at my father&#8217;s house.&#8221; In another she indicated she was married at &#8220;William Newmans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Had I only read one of these I would have missed the connection.<\/p>\n<p>Even when documents seem repetitive to the point of being excessive, read them all. There may be a clue in there if you look deeply enough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6619\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rampley-newman-marriage-locations-1024x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rampley-newman-marriage-locations-1024x186.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rampley-newman-marriage-locations-300x54.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rampley-newman-marriage-locations-768x139.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rampley-newman-marriage-locations-624x113.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rampley-newman-marriage-locations.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pension file for Civil War widow Nancy Rampley is rather large and contains numerous applications and appeals. For that reason, many of the petitions are repetitive. That&#8217;s good. In one application for a pension Nancy indicated that she was &#8220;married at my father&#8217;s house.&#8221; In another she indicated she was married at &#8220;William Newmans.&#8221; [&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-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","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=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}