{"id":2221,"date":"2016-02-25T06:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T06:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2016-02-25T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T06:48:22","slug":"some-simple-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"Some Simple Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"post-title entry-title\">[reprinted from old blog site on 20 May 2015&#8211;with some additions]<\/h5>\n<div class=\"post-header\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-6470639590007055482\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">I use the online trees for the occasional clue. However in reviewing many of these trees while searching for research leads this week, I was reminded that apparently not everyone is aware of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People do not marry after they die.<\/li>\n<li>People do not have children after they are dead.<\/li>\n<li>People are not born before their parents.<\/li>\n<li>People do not marry before their parents are born.<\/li>\n<li>The letters &#8220;bef&#8221; in front of a date matter.<\/li>\n<li>The letters &#8220;aft&#8221; in front of a date matter.<\/li>\n<li>The letters &#8220;about&#8221; in front of a date matter.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use &#8220;unk&#8221; for a last name<\/li>\n<li>Do not use &#8220;unknown&#8221; for a last name<\/li>\n<li>Do not use &#8220;Mrs.&#8221; for a first name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><i>Note:<\/i>\u00a0A reader pointed out that men can have children born up to around nine months after they are dead. That&#8217;s correct. Nine years afterwards is a bit much though!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[reprinted from old blog site on 20 May 2015&#8211;with some additions] I use the online trees for the occasional clue. However in reviewing many of these trees while searching for research leads this week, I was reminded that apparently not everyone is aware of the following: People do not marry after they die. People do [&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-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","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=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}