{"id":4573,"date":"2017-04-29T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2017-04-29T18:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T18:14:02","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-samuel-neill-1838-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: Samuel Neill (1838-1912)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is part of a series of short posts focusing on what I have learned about research (or life in general) from an ancestor. These may or may not be entirely serious. We will leave up to the reader to decide&#8211;after all, research is about evaluation of evidence \ud83d\ude09 )<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4574\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/samuel-neill-probate-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/samuel-neill-probate-cover.jpg 265w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/samuel-neill-probate-cover-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Samuel Neill (1838\/1839 County Derry, Ireland&#8211;1912 St. Albans Township).<\/p>\n<p>Lessons and reminders from researching Samuel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Names can get spelled incorrectly.<\/li>\n<li>Probate packets that you think are &#8220;missing&#8221; may &#8220;appear&#8221; when microfilm or digital images are made of the records.<\/li>\n<li>Never assume that you know what&#8217;s wrong in the obituary and what is right.<\/li>\n<li>Three out of your eight children can marry into the same family. Pay close attention to who your neighbors are when you settle into a new place. Close attention. They may end up being your grandchildren&#8217;s other set of grandparents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\">My ancestor table<\/a> can be viewed on my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of a series of short posts focusing on what I have learned about research (or life in general) from an ancestor. These may or may not be entirely serious. We will leave up to the reader to decide&#8211;after all, research is about evaluation of evidence \ud83d\ude09 ) Samuel Neill (1838\/1839 County Derry, [&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":[311,13],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestral-clues-and-lessons","tag-samuel-neill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","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=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}