{"id":7937,"date":"2018-11-15T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T16:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7937"},"modified":"2018-11-15T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T16:07:19","slug":"my-uncle-is-my-brother-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7937","title":{"rendered":"My Uncle is my Brother-in-Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7938\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rolf-habben-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rolf-habben-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rolf-habben-768x795.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rolf-habben.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>Rolf Habben was an uncle of my great-great-grandfather Johann Ufkes.<\/p>\n<p>Rolf Habben was also a brother-in-law of Johann Ufkes.<\/p>\n<p>I was confused.<\/p>\n<p>Rolf Habben was born in 1815 in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany. He was married twice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in 1840 to Hille Eilts Post (born 1807 in Wiesens-died in Wiesens in 1853).<\/li>\n<li>in 1857 to Christena Hinrichs Janssen (Ufkes) (born 1835 Holtroperfeld&#8211;died in 1880 in Hancock County, Illinois)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Hille Eilts Post was a sister to Trientje Eilts Post (born 1803 Wiesens&#8211;died in Holtroperfeld in 1878). Trientje Eilts Post married Hinrich Janssen (Ufkes). Trientje and Hinrich were the parents of Christena Hinrichs Janssen (Ufkes) and Johann Ufkes (my great-great-grandfather).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So Rolf Habben was the uncle of Johann Ufkes&#8211;because Rolf was married to Johann&#8217;s aunt Hille. And he was also Johann&#8217;s brother-in-law because he was later married to Johann&#8217;s sister Christena.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Even after Rolf married Christena Ufkes, Johann and his family continued to refer to Rolf as his Uncle. This is probably because Rolf was Johann&#8217;s uncle from the time he was two years old and twenty-three years older than Johann.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sometimes there&#8217;s more than one relationship between individuals. And sometimes what you think is incorrect may not be. Years ago I had a letter translated where Johann refers to Rolf as his uncle. I thought the translation was wrong. It wasn&#8217;t-I wasn&#8217;t aware of Rolf&#8217;s first wife.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Note<\/b>: All vital events in this post (except for Christina&#8217;s date of death) are from: Kroon, Gerd.\u00a0<i>Die Familien Der Kirchengemeinde Wiesens: (1642-1908).<\/i>\u00a0Gro\u00dfefehn, 2004. Print.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolf Habben was an uncle of my great-great-grandfather Johann Ufkes. Rolf Habben was also a brother-in-law of Johann Ufkes. I was confused. Rolf Habben was born in 1815 in Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany. He was married twice: in 1840 to Hille Eilts Post (born 1807 in Wiesens-died in Wiesens in 1853). in 1857 to Christena Hinrichs [&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-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","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=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}