{"id":4641,"date":"2017-05-05T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:36:57","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-william-ira-sargent-abt-1843-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4641","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: William Ira Sargent (abt. 1843-1916)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Ira Sargent was born about 1843 probably near Darlington, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1916 in Limestone Township, Peoria County, Illinois. He married Florence Ellen Butler in Union County, Iowa, in 1870.<\/p>\n<p>What I have learned from William Ira:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What you think is a first name may actually be a middle name. It may take decades to discover this.<\/li>\n<li>Research is more difficult when you are unaware that someone&#8217;s father died and that they are listed in records under their step-father&#8217;s name<\/li>\n<li>Some people move on a regular basis.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t quit looking, even if you&#8217;ve been searching for twenty-five years. That&#8217;s how long it took me to find Ira&#8217;s parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\">My ancestor table<\/a> can be viewed on my site. Ira is my great-great-grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Ira Sargent was born about 1843 probably near Darlington, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1916 in Limestone Township, Peoria County, Illinois. He married Florence Ellen Butler in Union County, Iowa, in 1870. What I have learned from William Ira: What you think is a first name may actually be a middle name. It may [&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-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","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=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}