{"id":4667,"date":"2017-05-09T04:13:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T04:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2018-03-08T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T15:47:36","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-noentje-lena-grass-ufkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: Noentje Lena (Grass) Ufkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noentje Lena (Grass) Ufkes was born in 1848 in Backemoor, Ostfriesland, Germany, and died in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1902. She married Johann Ufkes in Hancock County in 1874. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a few things I learned from researching \u00a0Noentje:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handwritten places of birth from family bibles can be woefully incorrect. One purportedly listed her birthplace as &#8220;Raikernohs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>You may not have all the pictures of someone even if the family has been extensively researched.\u00a0There have been three genealogies published of Noentje&#8217;s descendants and this picture (discovered in 2016) is not in any of them.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Sometimes people have siblings that they never meet. Noentje&#8217;s father married his last wife in Germany after Noentje emigrated to the United States. The mother and children immigrated after Noentje&#8217;s father died but did not settle near where Noentje did.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\">My ancestor table<\/a> can be viewed on my site. Noentje Lena is my great-great-grandmother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noentje Lena (Grass) Ufkes was born in 1848 in Backemoor, Ostfriesland, Germany, and died in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1902. She married Johann Ufkes in Hancock County in 1874. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a few things I learned from researching \u00a0Noentje: Handwritten places of birth from family bibles can be woefully incorrect. One purportedly listed her birthplace as [&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],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestral-clues-and-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","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=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}