{"id":9843,"date":"2020-04-07T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9843"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:47:15","slug":"the-flu-guardianships-and-court-records-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9843","title":{"rendered":"the Flu, Guardianships, and Court Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I discovered a court case that was appealed to the Illinois State Supreme Court while searching on Google books. I have included part of the summary here in this post. The parents died within ten days of each other in 1920. I am not certain what they died from, but will have to add getting death certificates to my list of things to do. The mother is a first cousin of my great-grandfather Trautvetter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trautvetter_mcmahon-756792.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9844\" width=\"303\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trautvetter_mcmahon-756792.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trautvetter_mcmahon-756792-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trautvetter_mcmahon-756792-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nMy great-grandfather Trautvetter&#8217;s sister and her husband died during the 1918 flu epidemic and their children were raised by family members after the parents died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you considered if the 1918 flu or other epidemics impacted your family members? Leaving minor children with no parents created a problem and in some cases those problems might have resulted in court or other records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another great-grandfather had a sister and brother-in-law who died during the flu. Now I&#8217;ll have to get on that and research that family as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image in this post was from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois<\/em><br>By the Illinois Supreme Court<br>Published by Supreme Court, State of Illinois, 1921<br>Item notes: v. 297<br>Original from Harvard University<br>Digitized Aug 15, 2007<br>located on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\">http:\/\/books.google.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered a court case that was appealed to the Illinois State Supreme Court while searching on Google books. I have included part of the summary here in this post. The parents died within ten days of each other in 1920. I am not certain what they died from, but will have to add getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843","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=9843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11110,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions\/11110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}