{"id":4842,"date":"2017-05-27T22:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T22:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2017-05-29T05:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T05:47:16","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-peter-bieger-about-1820-1855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4842","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: Peter Bieger (about 1820-1855)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4843\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peter-bieger-inventory-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peter-bieger-inventory-cover.jpg 514w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peter-bieger-inventory-cover-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/>Peter Bieger was born in Germany about 1820 and died in 1855 in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois. He married Barbara Siefert in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Some things I have learned about research and life from Peter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>family traditions can be outright lies.\u00a0<\/em>Peter&#8217;s descendants said he drowned in the Mississippi River. He died of an accidental gunshot wound.<\/li>\n<li><em>provide for your family in the event of your death<\/em>. Peter died while his children were both under the age of five. It wasn&#8217;t easy for Barbara to raise the two girls by herself.<\/li>\n<li><em>guardianship records can be helpful.\u00a0<\/em>The records of he guardianship of Peter&#8217;s children provided the names and exact dates of birth for Peter&#8217;s children in addition to other information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id%3D2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494697894038000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEf9g_7pi4nxUPTyRY1p0WsWwDZfg\">My ancestor table<\/a> can be viewed on my site. Peter\u00a0is my 3rd great-grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bieger was born in Germany about 1820 and died in 1855 in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois. He married Barbara Siefert in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Some things I have learned about research and life from Peter: family traditions can be outright lies.\u00a0Peter&#8217;s descendants said he drowned in the Mississippi River. He died of an [&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-4842","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\/4842","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=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}