{"id":7263,"date":"2017-09-26T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2017-09-26T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:35:56","slug":"is-one-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/is-one-hiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Is One Hiding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In families where the same name was used repeatedly, it can be easy to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>merge<\/strong> two different people with the same name into being the same person<\/li>\n<li><strong>confuse<\/strong> two different people with the same name and assign the wrong record or event to the wrong person<\/li>\n<li><strong>overlook<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>yet another relative with the same name&#8211;there could always be one more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Correctly sifting out people with the same name can be difficult. Look at records that mention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>age<\/li>\n<li>middle initials&#8211;if they even have them<\/li>\n<li>spouse<\/li>\n<li>occupational clues<\/li>\n<li>specific residence or residential clues<\/li>\n<li>relatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And look at <em><strong>every record<\/strong><\/em> you can get your hands on in the area where all these people with the same name lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In families where the same name was used repeatedly, it can be easy to: merge two different people with the same name into being the same person confuse two different people with the same name and assign the wrong record or event to the wrong person overlook\u00a0yet another relative with the same name&#8211;there could always [&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-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","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=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}