{"id":7379,"date":"2018-08-08T18:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2018-08-08T18:43:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:43:02","slug":"the-flu-guardianships-and-court-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7379","title":{"rendered":"The Flu, Guardianships, and Court Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered a court case that was appealed to the Illinois State Supreme Court while searching on Google books. I have included part of the summary here in this post. The parents died within ten days of each other in 1920. I am not certain what they died from, but will have to add getting death certificates to my list of things to do. The mother is a first cousin of my great-grandfather Trautvetter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7380\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trautvetter_mcmahon-756792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trautvetter_mcmahon-756792.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trautvetter_mcmahon-756792-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trautvetter_mcmahon-756792-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My great-grandfather Trautvetter&#8217;s sister and her husband died during the 1918 flu epidemic and their children were raised by family members after the parents died.<\/p>\n<p>Have you considered if the 1918 flu or other epidemics impacted your family members? Leaving minor children with no parents created a problem and in some cases those problems might have resulted in court or other records.<\/p>\n<p>Another great-grandfather had a sister and brother-in-law who died during the flu. Now I&#8217;ll have to get on that and research that family as well.<\/p>\n<p>The image in this post was from:<\/p>\n<p><em>Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois<\/em><br \/>\nBy the Illinois Supreme Court<br \/>\nPublished by Supreme Court, State of Illinois, 1921<br \/>\nItem notes: v. 297<br \/>\nOriginal from Harvard University<br \/>\nDigitized Aug 15, 2007<br \/>\nlocated on <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\">http:\/\/books.google.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered a court case that was appealed to the Illinois State Supreme Court while searching on Google books. I have included part of the summary here in this post. The parents died within ten days of each other in 1920. I am not certain what they died from, but will have to add getting [&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-7379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379","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=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}