{"id":434,"date":"2015-07-03T23:40:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2015-07-03T23:40:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:40:53","slug":"after-1830-does-not-mean-in-1830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"After 1830 Does Not Mean In 1830"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creating autogenerated text is apparently more difficult than one would think in the new &#8220;lifestories&#8221; at <em>Ancestry.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;lifestory&#8221; generated by\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>for my ancestor James Rampley (who is in one of my private online trees at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em>) indicates that his mother died in 1830. I never entered any such thing in my tree as I&#8217;ve never located a specific date of death for his mother, Christianna (DeMoss) Rampley. Heaven knows I&#8217;ve looked.<\/p>\n<p>My database indicates she died after 1830&#8211;and that&#8217;s the death date in the purple dot on the &#8220;lifestory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/christianna-after-1830.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-435\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/christianna-after-1830.jpg\" alt=\"christianna-after 1830\" width=\"680\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/christianna-after-1830.jpg 680w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/christianna-after-1830-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the lifestory indicates she died in 1830. Autogenerating family stories from database entries isn&#8217;t necessarily difficult. It doesn&#8217;t make for the most interesting prose, but if done correctly it can accurately reflect the data from which it was compiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating autogenerated text is apparently more difficult than one would think in the new &#8220;lifestories&#8221; at Ancestry.com. The &#8220;lifestory&#8221; generated by\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0for my ancestor James Rampley (who is in one of my private online trees at\u00a0Ancestry.com) indicates that his mother died in 1830. I never entered any such thing in my tree as I&#8217;ve never located [&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":[63],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com-lifestories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}