{"id":5432,"date":"2017-09-20T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:38:18","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-fannie-rampley-neill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5432","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: Fannie (Rampley) Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5433\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12717686_10207457333985836_8342538793733848645_n-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12717686_10207457333985836_8342538793733848645_n-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12717686_10207457333985836_8342538793733848645_n-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12717686_10207457333985836_8342538793733848645_n.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/>Fannie (Rampley) Neill was born in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois, in 1883 and died in Ursa, Adams County, Illinois, in 1963. Some things I learned about research from Fannie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>try and find their &#8220;real&#8221; name<\/em>. Fannie is referred to as &#8220;Fannie&#8221; on every document from her marriage until her death. Frances appears on her birth record and one census enumeration when she was still living at home. For that reason I refer to her as Fannie when writing about her.<\/li>\n<li><em>the hired man may become your husband<\/em>. They were near neighbors also, but Charlie Neill was working as a hired man for the Rampleys for about a year before he and Fannie married.<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;gone&#8221; does not mean &#8220;gone.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>Fannie is listed as &#8220;unavailable&#8221; according to her husband when served with a summons in a court case shortly after their marriage. There&#8217;s no evidence to suggest she ever left during this time period and it&#8217;s reasonable that she was either ill, \u00a0simply refused to go to the door, or that her husband said she wasn&#8217;t around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\">Fannie is my great-grandmother<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fannie (Rampley) Neill was born in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois, in 1883 and died in Ursa, Adams County, Illinois, in 1963. Some things I learned about research from Fannie: try and find their &#8220;real&#8221; name. Fannie is referred to as &#8220;Fannie&#8221; on every document from her marriage until her death. Frances appears on her [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","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=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}