{"id":103,"date":"2015-06-07T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T14:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-06-07T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T14:48:57","slug":"picking-a-point-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Picking a Point In Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> was about picking one point in time and determining which of your ancestors was alive on that date, where they were living, and what &#8220;life stage&#8221; they were in. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done that myself, so I&#8217;m going to pick a date of my own.<\/p>\n<p>3 June 1640 is entirely too early.<\/p>\n<p>1 April 1880 will be a little easier to manage. From memory, I have the following ancestors who were living on that date&#8211;with probable locations and a few reminders to myself&#8211;so this is a work in progress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samuel and Annie (Murphy) Neill in St. Albans Township, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Riley and Nancy (Newman) Rampley in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>William and Rebecca (Tinsley) Newman probably &#8220;near&#8221; Mobery, Missouri.<\/li>\n<li>John M. and Franciska (Bieger) Trautvetter in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Sophia (Derle) Trautvetter in Rocky Run or Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>James and Elizabeth (Chaney) Rampley in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Ira and Ellen (Butler) Sargent probably in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Butler in Vernon County, Missouri.<\/li>\n<li>Johann and Noentje (Grass) Ufkes in Adams or Hancock County, Illinois&#8211;were his parents living?<\/li>\n<li>Johannes Grass&#8211;have to check may be dead<\/li>\n<li>Jans Janssen living in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany&#8211;were his parents living?<\/li>\n<li>Reka Sartorius and parents Hinrich and Trientje (Behrens) Sartorius near Golden, Adams County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Trientje (Classen) Behrens near Golden, Adams County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Ulfert and Fredericka (Lichtsinn) Behrens near Golden, Adams County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Jann Habben and mother Antje (Jaspers) Habben Fecht in Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<li>Anke Fecht and father Hinrich Fecht in Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Fokke Goldenstein in Adams County, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Johann and Tjode Anna Focken (Tammen) Goldenstein in Wrisse, Ostfriesland, Germany.<\/li>\n<li>Hinrich Mueller in Brown County, Illinois&#8211;was wife Geske living?<\/li>\n<li>Anna Dirks and parents Bernard and Heikpe (Mueller) Dirks near Coatsburg, Adams County, Illinois.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>35 living&#8211;more than I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s\u00a0Genealogy Tip of the Day was about picking one point in time and determining which of your ancestors was alive on that date, where they were living, and what &#8220;life stage&#8221; they were in. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done that myself, so I&#8217;m going to pick a date of my own. 3 June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}