{"id":8410,"date":"2018-05-23T17:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2018-05-23T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:09:58","slug":"there-are-few-absolutes-absolutely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/23\/there-are-few-absolutes-absolutely\/","title":{"rendered":"There are Few Absolutes, Absolutely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally an ancestor has to be dead to have an estate settlement, has to be born to have a birth certificate, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Think about what really HAS to be when you research your ancestor. He didn&#8217;t have to get married to reproduce. He didn&#8217;t have to name his oldest son after his father. He didn&#8217;t have to get married near where his first child was born. He didn&#8217;t have to have a relative witness every document wrote. There are few &#8220;have tos&#8221; in genealogy. Make certain you aren&#8217;t using &#8220;have tos&#8221; to make brick walls for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally an ancestor has to be dead to have an estate settlement, has to be born to have a birth certificate, etc. Think about what really HAS to be when you research your ancestor. He didn&#8217;t have to get married to reproduce. He didn&#8217;t have to name his oldest son after his father. He didn&#8217;t [&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-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","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=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}