{"id":7384,"date":"2017-10-20T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2017-10-20T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:29:25","slug":"100-other-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/20\/100-other-times\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Other Times&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen hundreds of these affidavits in US homestead records.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of time when there was a clue. It indicated the homesteader on this 1888 document was a widower. That&#8217;s a clue. The homestead records don&#8217;t indicate that he married her a few years earlier in Illinois and that she and an infant child died shortly over a year later.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of looking at and actually reading\u00a0<em>everything<\/em>. Clues can be anywhere and sometimes something that someone else will not think is a clue will be a clue to you&#8211;it all depends upon what is already known.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7385\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harm-a-fecht-1024x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harm-a-fecht-1024x487.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harm-a-fecht-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harm-a-fecht-768x365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harm-a-fecht-624x297.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/harm-a-fecht.jpg 1043w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day\u00a0<\/em>is sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1710GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Check out their current offer for new subscribers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen hundreds of these affidavits in US homestead records. This is one of time when there was a clue. It indicated the homesteader on this 1888 document was a widower. That&#8217;s a clue. The homestead records don&#8217;t indicate that he married her a few years earlier in Illinois and that she and an infant [&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-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","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=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}