{"id":5043,"date":"2017-07-04T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2017-07-05T04:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:24:25","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5043","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: James Rampley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Rampley was born in England in the 1750s&#8211;probably in County Suffolk. He married Sarah Gibson in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1771. He died in Harford County, Maryland, in 1817. Some lessons I&#8217;ve learned about research from James:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>wills may contain end-runs around in-laws<\/em>. James gave an inheritance to the children of one of his surviving daughters, despite the fact that she and her husband were living. Another son-in-law was appointed guardian to oversee it. The children&#8217;s father was to have no oversight of the funds.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>learn your county formation dates<\/em>. James did not really move once he arrived in Maryland, but depending upon the time period he lived in either Baltimore or Harford County.<\/li>\n<li><em>you may have a criminal ancestor.\u00a0<\/em>James was convicted of a minor crime in County Suffolk, England, and transported to Maryland in 1764.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>James Rampley\u00a0is my fifth great-grandfather. You can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\">view my ancestor list\u00a0<\/a>on my website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Rampley was born in England in the 1750s&#8211;probably in County Suffolk. He married Sarah Gibson in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1771. He died in Harford County, Maryland, in 1817. Some lessons I&#8217;ve learned about research from James: wills may contain end-runs around in-laws. James gave an inheritance to the children of one of his [&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-5043","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\/5043","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=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}