{"id":9440,"date":"2019-01-03T22:40:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T04:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9440"},"modified":"2019-01-03T22:40:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T04:40:26","slug":"same-first-names-are-clues-not-100-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/03\/same-first-names-are-clues-not-100-proof\/","title":{"rendered":"Same First Names are Clues&#8211;Not 100% Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a family that I thought was closely related to mine&#8211;they were from the same little Irish village, but settled several hundred miles away. Both families used many of the same first names&#8211;Samuel, Edward, Joseph, Thomas, Charles.<\/p>\n<p>That was a clue to continue working on locating information on the second family to see if something more strongly connected them to mine.<\/p>\n<p>It was a clue that there could be a connection&#8211;it was not proof in and of itself that the families were connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a family that I thought was closely related to mine&#8211;they were from the same little Irish village, but settled several hundred miles away. Both families used many of the same first names&#8211;Samuel, Edward, Joseph, Thomas, Charles. That was a clue to continue working on locating information on the second family to [&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-9440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440","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=9440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}