{"id":8702,"date":"2018-07-22T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T15:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2018-07-22T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T15:28:43","slug":"the-first-guy-might-not-be-your-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/22\/the-first-guy-might-not-be-your-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Guy Might Not Be Your Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records suggest that your ancestor who was in Kentucky in the 1830s and after was in Amherst County, Virginia, before that. Don&#8217;t just grab the first guy you find in Amherst County, Virginia, in 1820 and assume you&#8217;ve got the right one.<\/p>\n<p>There could be more than one guy in Amherst County with that name&#8211;see if there are guys with that name still living in Amherst County in 1830 after your guy has left. It could be that your guy wasn&#8217;t really in Amherst County at all, but lived near the border and actually appears in adjacent counties in those records.<\/p>\n<p>And it could be that your guy had already left Virginia by 1820.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records suggest that your ancestor who was in Kentucky in the 1830s and after was in Amherst County, Virginia, before that. Don&#8217;t just grab the first guy you find in Amherst County, Virginia, in 1820 and assume you&#8217;ve got the right one. There could be more than one guy in Amherst County with that name&#8211;see [&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-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","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=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}