{"id":4235,"date":"2017-03-01T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:52:03","slug":"no-date-of-birth-and-what-does-the-p-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"No Date of Birth and What Does the &#8220;P&#8221; Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ancestry.com<\/em> announced that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-865524-10470501?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D1222\">Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1963<\/a>&#8221; was recently updated so I decided to search for a few members of the Sledd family that I&#8217;ve put off looking for. The death certificates do not completely cover the entire 1852-1963 time frame. Registration of deaths was done in the 1850s and statewide registration started up again in 1911. Readers are encouraged to determine when deaths were recorded for their specific areas of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The death certificate for William Sledd in Montgomery County, Kentucky, also reminded me of the importance of not requiring exact dates of birth when searching. There is no date of birth at all for William Sledd on the certificate, although his age is listed as eighty-six.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain what the stamped &#8220;P&#8221; reference indicates, but I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s a clerical notation.<\/p>\n<p>The certificate indicated that William was a former county officer, including sheriff and assessor. There may be some additional information in other county records, county histories, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4236\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sledd-william-ancestry-KYVR_7017493-0336-985x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sledd-william-ancestry-kyvr_7017493-0336\" width=\"750\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sledd-william-ancestry-KYVR_7017493-0336-985x1024.jpg 985w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sledd-william-ancestry-KYVR_7017493-0336-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sledd-william-ancestry-KYVR_7017493-0336-768x799.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sledd-william-ancestry-KYVR_7017493-0336.jpg 1701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>William&#8217;s father, Nelson, was a brother to Melinda (Sledd) Newman who died in 1867 in Linn County, Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com announced that &#8220;Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1963&#8221; was recently updated so I decided to search for a few members of the Sledd family that I&#8217;ve put off looking for. The death certificates do not completely cover the entire 1852-1963 time frame. Registration of deaths was done in the 1850s and statewide registration started up again [&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":[301],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-william-sledd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","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=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}