{"id":7651,"date":"2018-09-28T16:04:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2018-09-28T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:04:45","slug":"were-related-app-where-do-you-get-these-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7651","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Related App&#8211;Where Do You Get These Things?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7652\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/harriet-pulver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/harriet-pulver.jpg 480w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/harriet-pulver-150x300.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/>I installed the &#8220;We&#8217;re Related&#8221; app from\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>on my new phone just to see how it had changed from when I originally installed and experimented with it some time ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not really changed.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it indicated that my maternal grandmother was a woman named Harriet I. Pulver (1926-1952). Pulver apparently spent her entire life in New York State&#8211;Columbia County. That&#8217;s a distance from Hancock County, Illinois, where my maternal grandmother lived from 1924 until 2006 (she died in Florida in 2008). There&#8217;s no geographic connection at all and it&#8217;s difficult to see how any matching algorithm could confuse Dorothy A. Habben with Harriet I. Pulver.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, according to 17 July 1952 article in the\u00a0<em>Niagara Falls Gazette<\/em>\u00a0Pulver was stabbed to death.<\/p>\n<p>How this app pulled her as being my grandmother is beyond me. I have no connections to Columbia County, New York, and all my maternal ancestors were immigrant US mid-westerners from the 1850\/1860 era onward.<\/p>\n<p>Other matches have been more plausible and at least based on trees&#8211;even if they were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This one just makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>More entertainment&#8211;and not so entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed the &#8220;We&#8217;re Related&#8221; app from\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0on my new phone just to see how it had changed from when I originally installed and experimented with it some time ago. It&#8217;s not really changed. In fact, it indicated that my maternal grandmother was a woman named Harriet I. Pulver (1926-1952). Pulver apparently spent her entire life [&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":[279],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-were-related-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651","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=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}