{"id":6888,"date":"2017-07-02T23:19:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2017-07-02T23:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:19:30","slug":"not-all-relationships-generate-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/02\/not-all-relationships-generate-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Not All Relationships Generate Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your ancestor had relationships that did not generate records. It&#8217;s obvious when one thinks about it, but often something that we forget.<\/p>\n<p>A relative of mine had a short-term boyfriend in the state of Iowa in the late 1870s that resulted in a pregnancy. She never married the father of the child.\u00a0I only know his name because her subsequent marriage to \u00a0Civil War veteran resulted in her applying for a widow&#8217;s pension where she mentioned the previous relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Another relative was &#8220;married&#8221; in the 1850s for less than a few months to a man who was temporarily guardian for her minor children. I suspect she was married to him (or acted like she was) because she signs his last name to some documents involving her first husband&#8217;s estate.<\/p>\n<p>I just got lucky I was able to locate information on these relationships and it makes me wonder how many relationships leave no record at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your ancestor had relationships that did not generate records. It&#8217;s obvious when one thinks about it, but often something that we forget. A relative of mine had a short-term boyfriend in the state of Iowa in the late 1870s that resulted in a pregnancy. She never married the father of the child.\u00a0I only know his [&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-6888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888","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=6888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}