{"id":7149,"date":"2017-08-29T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2017-08-29T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:17:08","slug":"inscribed-in-stone-is-no-guarantee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/inscribed-in-stone-is-no-guarantee\/","title":{"rendered":"Inscribed in Stone is No Guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3335\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trautvetter-stone-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trautvetter-stone-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trautvetter-stone.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/>Stones aren&#8217;t always correct.<\/p>\n<p>This stone has a date of death for the wife that differs from the date of birth listed on her guardianship in the 1850s. The stone is transcribed as written&#8211;I don&#8217;t change what something says.<\/p>\n<p>But the guardianship record is more contemporary to Franciska&#8217;s birth and the informant on that record is likely her mother.<\/p>\n<p>Based on estate records for husband John, this stone was erected after his death in 1917&#8211;some time after Franciska died with information provided by someone who did not have first hand knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>I indicate exactly what the stone says, but for I would give the most credence to the date of birth from the record that was created most closely to her actual birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stones aren&#8217;t always correct. This stone has a date of death for the wife that differs from the date of birth listed on her guardianship in the 1850s. The stone is transcribed as written&#8211;I don&#8217;t change what something says. But the guardianship record is more contemporary to Franciska&#8217;s birth and the informant on that record [&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-7149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149","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=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}