{"id":5314,"date":"2017-09-04T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2017-09-04T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:01:08","slug":"a-seventy-one-year-old-son-trips-up-ancestry-in-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5314","title":{"rendered":"A Seventy-One Year Old Son Trips Up Ancestry in 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The transcription indicates that John was the “son” of the head of household.<\/p><\/div>\n

I knew the transcription was wrong. My seventy-one year old ancestor was not living with his parents in 1910. He was not necessarily too old to have any living parents, but by 1910 his parents were actually deceased.<\/p>\n

Viewing the actual census indicated that John was a boarder in the household of William Tripp in Hancock County, Illinois’ Walker Township. John had lived in the township since his 1868 marriage, still owned a farm in 1910 (which he would own at his death), and had several children and extended family members living nearby.<\/p>\n

It is not known why he is living with the Tripps in 1910. They are not members of John’s extended family who also lived in the area. They are certainly not his parents.<\/p>\n

John’s occupation is listed as a farmer on a “home farm” and he indicated that his farm is owned free. Based upon local mortgage records and probate records for John after his death, the farm was not free and clear in 1910. However, based upon those records, the value of the farm was approximately three times the initial value of the mortgage and was worth even more when sold after his death. Probate records indicate that the income from John’s farm was more than adequate to cover the regular payments on the mortgage and there was never any danger of default. Why the census record indicated the farm was owned free and clear is not known.<\/p>\n

It is possible that John did not provide the information for his enumeration and whoever did simply assumed his farm was owned free and clear. Interestingly enough, John’s year of immigration to the United States (1853–note this originally was posted as “1953”)<\/em> as listed in the census is correct.<\/p>\n

William Tripp was renting farmland in Walker Township in 1910 according to the census enumeration so knowing exactly where he lived within the township is difficult. There is no indication of whether or not the farm he rented was Trautvetter’s farm. However, Tripp and Trautvetter are both indicated as reporting information on separate farm schedules. Those schedules have been destroyed so it is impossible to know exactly what they said for either Tripp or for Trautvetter.\"\"<\/p>\n

Apparently the transcriber tripped over this enumeration when transcribing Trautvetter’s line in the entry. That’s why researchers should not let Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>automatically pull relationships from their transcriptions into their databases. Check, check, and check.<\/p>\n

Otherwise you might trip over a relationship.<\/p>\n

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I knew the transcription was wrong. My seventy-one year old ancestor was not living with his parents in 1910. He was not necessarily too old to have any living parents, but by 1910 his parents were actually deceased. Viewing the actual census indicated that John was a boarder in the household of William Tripp in […]<\/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-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","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=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}