{"id":8518,"date":"2018-06-14T18:34:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T23:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2018-06-14T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T04:22:45","slug":"named-for-a-step-grandparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/14\/named-for-a-step-grandparent\/","title":{"rendered":"Named for a Step-GrandParent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking where a family &#8220;got a name,&#8221; go beyond biological relatives. That name could be for a relative by marriage.<\/p>\n<p>An uncle of mine married a woman in 1874 who had a six year old son and raised him as his own. Never formerly adopted, the uncle left his entire estate to the son he raised. That uncle&#8217;s father died in 1912. In that same year the son apparently named his own child for his step-father&#8217;s father, giving his child the step-grandfather&#8217;s first and middle name.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t assume that name has to be for a biological relative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking where a family &#8220;got a name,&#8221; go beyond biological relatives. That name could be for a relative by marriage. An uncle of mine married a woman in 1874 who had a six year old son and raised him as his own. Never formerly adopted, the uncle left his entire estate to the [&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-8518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518","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=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}