{"id":8309,"date":"2018-04-30T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T14:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2020-01-22T06:59:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:59:42","slug":"where-there-is-a-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/where-there-is-a-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Where There Is a Will&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wills can get things wrong. This 1903 will from Hancock County, Illinois, refers to a granddaughter as a daughter and another relative as Lanne Ensmer when her name was Lena Ensminger.<\/p>\n<p>Other information in the probate file may contain the correct relationships and other details. Testators may say names in ways that make it hard for the actual writer of the will to get it correct.<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8310\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/barbara-will-wrong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/barbara-will-wrong.jpg 760w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/barbara-will-wrong-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/barbara-will-wrong-624x411.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">get our genealogy tip daily in your email for free, add your address here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wills can get things wrong. This 1903 will from Hancock County, Illinois, refers to a granddaughter as a daughter and another relative as Lanne Ensmer when her name was Lena Ensminger. Other information in the probate file may contain the correct relationships and other details. Testators may say names in ways that make it hard [&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-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","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=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}