{"id":8459,"date":"2019-02-24T01:18:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T01:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2019-02-24T01:18:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T01:18:58","slug":"the-other-side-of-the-brick-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8459","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side of the Brick Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8461\" style=\"width: 842px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8461\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8461\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/clark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"832\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/clark.jpg 832w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/clark-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/clark-768x219.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh Sargent, of Courteenhall, Northamptonshire and his descendants in England, Aaron Sargent, Somerville, Mass. (1895)&#8211;obtained digitally on Archive.org (http:\/\/www.archive.org) on 3 December 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Your &#8220;brick wall&#8221; may be someone else&#8217;s as well, just from the opposite side. The compiler of this 1895 Sargent genealogy only knew the name of one of Clark Sargent&#8217;s children. Unfortunately, I (for a long time) only knew the name of my ancestor, Ira Sargent&#8211;no sibling information was known.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Ira turned out to be 1128&#8211;that son that the compiler was unable to locate. The Sargent genealogy only traced male lines so there wouldn&#8217;t have been much to say about Ira anyway as he had three daughters.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons Clark was a brick wall for all parties concerned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clark died young.<\/li>\n<li>His wife died young, but after Clark.<\/li>\n<li>His wife&#8217;s second husband raised the children and they used his last name in several records.<\/li>\n<li>The family settled where they had no near relatives, making communication of information with other family members difficult and reducing the children&#8217;s knowledge of their heritage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your &#8220;brick wall&#8221; may be someone else&#8217;s as well, just from the opposite side. The compiler of this 1895 Sargent genealogy only knew the name of one of Clark Sargent&#8217;s children. Unfortunately, I (for a long time) only knew the name of my ancestor, Ira Sargent&#8211;no sibling information was known. Of course, Ira turned out [&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-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","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=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}