{"id":8986,"date":"2018-09-29T08:29:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T13:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2018-09-28T21:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T02:37:33","slug":"is-there-a-message-in-the-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/29\/is-there-a-message-in-the-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There a Message in the Order?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never change the order of any names in a document. Children could (but not necessarily) be listed in order of age in a will. If an older child is listed last in a census enumeration it may mean that they weren&#8217;t really living there or had moved back home (or it could just be an &#8220;error&#8221; on the part of the census taker). Heirs may be listed in order of age on a quit claim deed (or they may not).<\/p>\n<p>The order may be a clue, but try and use other documentation to back up any conclusions you make about the order.<\/p>\n<p>And remember that order, sometimes like life, may be completely random and meaningless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never change the order of any names in a document. Children could (but not necessarily) be listed in order of age in a will. If an older child is listed last in a census enumeration it may mean that they weren&#8217;t really living there or had moved back home (or it could just be an [&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-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","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=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}