{"id":7507,"date":"2018-09-08T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2018-09-08T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T15:00:56","slug":"do-you-know-the-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7507","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know the Qualifications?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How one gets listed in a record is an important part of the analysis process.<\/p>\n<p>It should be fairly obvious how someone gets listed in a death record&#8211;at least the principal person. There are other people who may be alive and whose names may appear on a death certificate (the parents, the informant, the doctor, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>In the cases of other records the qualifiers may not be so clear:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What were the qualifications to vote in Ohio in 1823?<\/li>\n<li>Who had to pay personal property taxes in Maryland in 1845?<\/li>\n<li>Who was required to register for the Civil War draft?<\/li>\n<li>Who was eligible to serve on a jury in South Carolina in 1810?<\/li>\n<li>Who could witness a document in Maryland in 1798?<\/li>\n<li>Who could serve as an administrator in Missouri in 1878?<\/li>\n<li>Who could serve as a guardian in Illinois in 1856?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The answers to the above questions usually lies in contemporary state statute&#8211;but not always, especially if the document is a Federal one.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But there are more:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Who was eligible to naturalize in the United States in 1860?<\/li>\n<li>Who was supposed to be enumerated in the 1840 census?<\/li>\n<li>Who was eligible to be a schoolteacher in Ohio in 1920?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>If your relative acted in any capacity, appeared in an official record, or was &#8220;required&#8221; to do something, find out more about why that was necessary.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The way may not be stated in the record, but knowing it may tell you more about your ancestor.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How one gets listed in a record is an important part of the analysis process. It should be fairly obvious how someone gets listed in a death record&#8211;at least the principal person. There are other people who may be alive and whose names may appear on a death certificate (the parents, the informant, the doctor, [&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-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}