[Genealogy] Tip of Day Books, Irish Twins, Farmers sans their own land presentation

[Michael John Neill]

   - Genealogy Tip of the Day Books
   - Irish Twins
   - Farmers and Not Landowners
   - Common Name Webinar
   - Consultations
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   - Genealogy Tip of the Day Books
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Irish Twins
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>From our Facebook page...

The phrase "Irish Twins," was never used, but my Grandma and her sister
maintained they were born 262 days apart (Aunt Lillie on 13 Dec 1909 and
Grandma on 1 September 1910). "Irish Twins" is a term (now considered
derogatory) for siblings of the same mother born less than a year apart.
Google it if you've never heard of it.
Now Grandma would never have lied about her own birth <grin>, so I knew
that one was right [image: 😉] Actually Grandma's birth certificate gives
her date in 1910 just like she had always insisted. Every record on Grandma
from her birth certificate until her death gives a 1910 year of birth. Of
course, her birth certificate (1910), baptism (1915), and 1920 census
enumerations would be considered more reliable than her death certificate,
obituary, and tombstone as those three were more contemporary to her actual
date of birth.
Aunt Lillie maintained she was born on 13 December 1909--it's in her
obituary and on her tombstone. She has no birth certificate in Hancock
County,Illinois, where she was born. But there's only 262 days between the
births of my Aunt and my Grandma. That's a narrow time frame. But I heard
the story of the close birth more than once.
However, her baptismal record from November of 1915 indicated she was born
on 13 December 1908. Her 1910 census enumeration indicated she was 1 and
4/12 of a year old. She wasn't born in 1909 after all, but instead in 1908.
Sometime around her marriage she shaved a year off her age. So Aunt Lillie
wasn't born in 1909 but was born instead in 1908. It is possible that Aunt
Lillie filed a delayed birth certificate in Adams County, Illinois, where
she lived from the late 1920s through the duration of her life. That's not
where she was born according (at least I'm 99% certain) to more
contemporary sources, but she would not be the first person to have a
delayed birth certificate filed somewhere other than where she was
actually. It's possible she was born in Adams County, but based on what I
know about the family I'm inclined to think it was Hancock--which is what
her 1915 baptismal record indicates. Her sister is baptized on the same
date and her place of birth on the baptism is the same township listed on
the birth certificate five years earlier.
There was another Lillie Trautvetter born in December of 1908 as
well--imagine the chance of that. Both of the Lillies had fathers named
George. The Georges were cousins.
But these "Irish twins" weren't twins and they wern't Irish either. After
all, they were Trautvetters, not "O'Trautvetters."

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   Farmers But Not Landowners
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   Presentations on farming ancestors tend to focus on those who owned real
   estate. It can be a challenge to research those farmers who rented their
   ground, worked as sharecroppers, or those who worked in agriculture as farm
   laborers. In this presentation we focus on these types of individuals
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/farmers-tenants-and-laborers/>.
   Farm renters, sharecroppers, and farm laborers tend to leave fewer
records–we’ll
   focus on research strategies directed towards them.
   <https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/farmers-tenants-and-laborers/>
They
   can be challenging to research in a way that landowners are not.

   Details at:

   https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com

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   Common Name Webinar
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   Details on this presentation are at:

   https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2025/11/04/common-names-at-familysearch-full-text-webinar/

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   Until Next Time!,

Michael

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Michael John Neill
Genealogy Tip of the Day
http://www.genealogytipoftheday.com
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