{"id":3810,"date":"2016-12-17T05:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2016-12-17T05:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:26:14","slug":"who-are-those-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"Who Are Those Chains?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After researching my maternal Ostfriesen families for thirty years, I’m reasonably familiar with most renderings of their first and last name. Even if I’ve never seen a specific variant before I can usually determine what the clerk was trying to render on paper.<\/p>\n

Until I came across the Chains.<\/p>\n

I was not even looking for Chains. They simply were there surrounding my uncle William Goldenstein.He was the focus as I was trying to estimate his arrival in the United States using his census enumerations.<\/p>\n

\"1880-goldenstein-schones\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But who were the Chains?<\/p>\n

The Chain heads of household, like Goldenstein were born in Hanover. The other last names on the census page were virtually all ones I recognized as other Ostfriesen families that settled in the same area.<\/p>\n

But who were the Chains? I could not think of what last name it could be and while I was not related to every Ostfriesen family in the area, I had heard of virtually all the last names.<\/p>\n

I tried saying “chain” in a variety of ways hoping to make it click.<\/p>\n

Then I reviewed my information on William Goldenstein. In the early 1880s, he had married Lena Schone and they had a son named Oltman. That was it. The name was not Chain.<\/p>\n

It was Schone.<\/p>\n

It should have dawned on me earlier. Not only did my uncle William Goldenstein marry a Schone in the 1880s, his niece Heipke Goldenstein married a man named William Schone twenty-some years later.<\/p>\n

Always be on the lookout for new variants.<\/p>\n

And be careful who you have as the hired man. He may end up being chained to your family forever as your son-in-law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After researching my maternal Ostfriesen families for thirty years, I’m reasonably familiar with most renderings of their first and last name. Even if I’ve never seen a specific variant before I can usually determine what the clerk was trying to render on paper. Until I came across the Chains. I was not even looking for […]<\/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-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","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=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}