{"id":5405,"date":"2017-09-16T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2017-09-16T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:46:30","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-hinrich-jacobs-fecht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5405","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: Hinrich Jacobs Fecht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hinrich was born in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany, in 1823. He died in Elvaston, Hancock County, Illinois, in 1912. Some things about research that I have learned from Hinrich:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>those who are poor leave fewer records<\/em>. Hinrich never purchased real property, does not appear on any tax lists, and has no probate record.<\/li>\n<li><em>immigrants get their names mixed up<\/em>. Hinrich is enumerated in the 1870 census as Henry Jacobs instead of Henry\/Hinrich Fecht.<\/li>\n<li><em>widowers sometimes marry a sister-in-law.\u00a0<\/em>Hinrich&#8217;s first and second wives, Trientje and Marie Bruns, were sisters. He married Marie after his first wife Trientje died.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\">Hinrich is my 3rd great-grandfather<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinrich was born in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany, in 1823. He died in Elvaston, Hancock County, Illinois, in 1912. Some things about research that I have learned from Hinrich: those who are poor leave fewer records. Hinrich never purchased real property, does not appear on any tax lists, and has no probate record. immigrants get their [&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-5405","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\/5405","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=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}