{"id":7031,"date":"2018-05-29T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7031"},"modified":"2018-05-30T03:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T03:29:08","slug":"a-missed-clue-in-boilerplate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7031","title":{"rendered":"A Missed Clue in Boilerplate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often it is good to review material that one located early in one&#8217;s research. That&#8217;s the case with an 1833 deed from Coshocton County, Ohio. Thomas Chaney transfers property to his son Abraham with payment to be made to Abraham&#8217;s sister, Elizabeth Rampley.<\/p>\n<p>The payment I was familiar with. I grabbed it because it tied Elizabeth (my ancestor) to Thomas and Abraham.\u00a0 In fact, I concentrated on that phrase to the exclusion of the phrase where Thomas indicated that the property in Coshocton County, Ohio was to serve as Abraham&#8217;s share of Thomas&#8217; estate. Thomas does not mention whether the money given to Elizabeth was in lieu of her share in Thomas&#8217; estate.<\/p>\n<p>We mentioned the deed in a recent issue of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\">Casefile Clues.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It always pays to read the entire deed&#8211;even if you think there can&#8217;t be any more good stuff in it. Never assume that the rest of the deed is just &#8220;boilerplate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It may not be.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7035\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thomas-chaney-abraham-no-estate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thomas-chaney-abraham-no-estate.jpg 723w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thomas-chaney-abraham-no-estate-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often it is good to review material that one located early in one&#8217;s research. That&#8217;s the case with an 1833 deed from Coshocton County, Ohio. Thomas Chaney transfers property to his son Abraham with payment to be made to Abraham&#8217;s sister, Elizabeth Rampley. The payment I was familiar with. I grabbed it because [&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-7031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031","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=7031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}