{"id":9492,"date":"2019-01-14T18:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2019-01-14T18:32:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T00:32:44","slug":"am-i-a-reliable-source-for-my-aunts-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/am-i-a-reliable-source-for-my-aunts-siblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I A Reliable Source for My Aunt&#8217;s Siblings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: This tip is not to say that the five individuals mentioned\u00a0<\/em>were not<em> siblings&#8211;it&#8217;s intended to provide some food for thought.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My great-aunt was born in 1931, the youngest of five siblings. She was thirty-seven years of age when I was born. The first sibling died when I was a junior in high school. The others died over a period of thirty years. Am I a reliable source for their sibling relationship?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I was not around when they were born or when they were growing up. I saw and interacted with my great-aunt and her siblings, including her oldest brother who was my grandfather. I saw them together at family functions. I saw them acknowledge each other as siblings on numerous occasions. I saw four of them attend their mother&#8217;s funeral in 1986 (the youngest son died in 1984).<\/p>\n<p>What I am a source for is that they acted like they were siblings. They acknowledged each other as siblings. Neighbors and other relatives acknowledged them as siblings. Everything I saw indicated they were siblings. That statement I can make confidently based on firsthand knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>What I can&#8217;t say at all is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>where they were born;<\/li>\n<li>where they lived before I was old enough to remember;<\/li>\n<li>when they were born&#8211;at least not precisely&#8211;their birth sequence I would have reasonable knowledge of because I knew them for some time as adults;<\/li>\n<li>anything I didn&#8217;t witness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think about that when analyzing something on a death certificate, census, interview, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This tip is not to say that the five individuals mentioned\u00a0were not siblings&#8211;it&#8217;s intended to provide some food for thought. My great-aunt was born in 1931, the youngest of five siblings. She was thirty-seven years of age when I was born. The first sibling died when I was a junior in high school. The [&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-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","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=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}