{"id":8496,"date":"2019-03-03T18:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2019-03-03T18:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T18:04:56","slug":"which-great-grandchild-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8496","title":{"rendered":"Which Great-grandchild Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers know that I&#8217;m not a big fan of writing prompts, memes, or other activities that I loosely categorize as &#8220;busy work.&#8221; I&#8217;ve got a long list of things to write about as it is, don&#8217;t really follow the crowd in any way shape or form, and usually need to see a reason behind doing just about any activity.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking about my great-grandparents and their great-grandchildren the other day. I realized that in my attempt to document the deceased, I really, out of personal preference, don&#8217;t document the living as much as other genealogists do.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of two sets of great-grandparents, I know (off the top of my head) where I fit in the age order of all their great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fred (1893-1960) and Tena (Janssen) (1895-1986) Ufkes&#8211;I&#8217;m the oldest great-grandchild. In fact for nearly twenty years, my brother and I were their only great-grandchildren.<\/li>\n<li>Charlie (1875-1948) and Fannie (Rampley) (1883-1965) Neill&#8211;I&#8217;m their third oldest great-grandchild. Two of my first cousins are the oldest great-grandchildren and then there&#8217;s me. At least I&#8217;m pretty certain.<\/li>\n<li>George (1869-1934) and Ida (Sargent) (1874-1939) Trautvetter. I&#8217;m not certain where I fit into the age order of great-grandchildren.<\/li>\n<li>Mimka (1881-1969) and Tjode (Goldenstein) 1882-1954) Habben. I&#8217;m even less certain where I fit into their list of great-grandchildren.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Do you know where you fit in your great-grandparents&#8217; list?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers know that I&#8217;m not a big fan of writing prompts, memes, or other activities that I loosely categorize as &#8220;busy work.&#8221; I&#8217;ve got a long list of things to write about as it is, don&#8217;t really follow the crowd in any way shape or form, and usually need to see a reason behind [&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-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","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=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}