{"id":8238,"date":"2018-04-15T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2018-04-15T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T13:41:47","slug":"early-us-deaths-in-years-ending-in-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/15\/early-us-deaths-in-years-ending-in-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Early US Deaths in Years Ending in Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a census record is all we have to indicate that an ancestor lived until a certain point in time and that enumeration is often used as a &#8220;last alive on&#8221; date. Whenever I see an unsourced death date of 1800, 1810, etc. for an ancestor in an online tree or any reference, I wonder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>did someone enter his death date as &#8220;after 1800&#8221; and did someone (or their software) strip the &#8220;after&#8221; from that date?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Several genealogists indicate that a relative died in 1800&#8211;no source. The last census in which he is recorded is 1800. While I don&#8217;t use these unsourced dates of death in my own records, I still wonder if there is any credence to the year of death they have. Did they find something that I have overlooked?<\/p>\n<p>But when the year ends in a &#8220;0,&#8221; I really wonder if the &#8220;after&#8221; got stripped from the approximate date of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a census record is all we have to indicate that an ancestor lived until a certain point in time and that enumeration is often used as a &#8220;last alive on&#8221; date. Whenever I see an unsourced death date of 1800, 1810, etc. for an ancestor in an online tree or any reference, I wonder: [&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-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","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=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}