{"id":7792,"date":"2018-01-06T12:25:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T18:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2018-01-06T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T18:25:33","slug":"fudging-one-piece-of-information-is-all-it-sometimes-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/06\/fudging-one-piece-of-information-is-all-it-sometimes-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fudging One Piece of Information Is All It Sometimes Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Census enumerators are sometimes given a slightly incorrect detail or two to make a family situation appear different than it is. In this 1930 enumeration the husband&#8217;s &#8220;age at first marriage&#8221; is incorrect&#8211;probably to make it look like he was the father of all the children. The oldest child was the wife&#8217;s by a previous marriage.<\/p>\n<p>There is not really anything in this enumeration to suggest that either&#8211;the gap in ages of children could easily be explained by an infant death, miscarriage, etc. This is why looking at more than one record is imperative.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7793\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lying-1940.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lying-1940.jpg 750w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lying-1940-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lying-1940-624x499.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census enumerators are sometimes given a slightly incorrect detail or two to make a family situation appear different than it is. In this 1930 enumeration the husband&#8217;s &#8220;age at first marriage&#8221; is incorrect&#8211;probably to make it look like he was the father of all the children. The oldest child was the wife&#8217;s by a previous [&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-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792","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=7792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}