{"id":8759,"date":"2018-08-04T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2018-08-01T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:31:56","slug":"no-kids-never-had-siblings-and-died-with-some-cash-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/04\/no-kids-never-had-siblings-and-died-with-some-cash-3\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kids, Never Had Siblings, and Died With Some Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8760\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8760\" class=\"wp-image-8760 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/coverpacket-michael-trautvetter-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/coverpacket-michael-trautvetter-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/coverpacket-michael-trautvetter-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/coverpacket-michael-trautvetter-624x552.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/coverpacket-michael-trautvetter.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael&#8217;s siblings, nieces, and nephews were his heirs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Is there a relative who never had any children of their own, had no siblings and died owning enough property to require a probate or an estate settlement?<\/p>\n<p>If so, the records of that settlement may be particularly interesting. The deceased person&#8217;s heirs-at-law typically would have been their first cousins or their first cousin&#8217;s descendants. Even if there was a will, these heirs-at-law typically would have had to have been notified of the probate. Those records could help determine relationships and indicate where people were living at the time the relative died.<\/p>\n<p>These estate or probate records would typically be filed at the local court level.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Check out Michael\u2019s newsletter\u2013<em><a href=\"http:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Casefile Clues<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a relative who never had any children of their own, had no siblings and died owning enough property to require a probate or an estate settlement? If so, the records of that settlement may be particularly interesting. The deceased person&#8217;s heirs-at-law typically would have been their first cousins or their first cousin&#8217;s descendants. [&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-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","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=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}