{"id":8574,"date":"2018-06-28T14:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2018-06-28T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:41:17","slug":"being-formerly-late-or-formally-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/28\/being-formerly-late-or-formally-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Formerly Late or Formally Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reference to &#8220;John Smith, late of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,&#8221; probably means that Smith used to reside in Bedford County but no longer does. It does not necessarily mean that Smith was deceased. &#8220;John Smith, formerly of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,&#8221; means that Smith used to live in Bedford County, but that he no longer does.<\/p>\n<p>Deceased usually means dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Late&#8221; does not have to mean dead. Sometimes contextually clues will make that obvious and other times they will not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reference to &#8220;John Smith, late of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,&#8221; probably means that Smith used to reside in Bedford County but no longer does. It does not necessarily mean that Smith was deceased. &#8220;John Smith, formerly of Bedford County, Pennsylvania,&#8221; means that Smith used to live in Bedford County, but that he no longer does. [&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-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","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=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}