{"id":100,"date":"2011-02-26T17:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-02-27T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T21:35:09","slug":"whats-your-oldest-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2011\/02\/26\/whats-your-oldest-record\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s your oldest record?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of the fun of genealogy is discovering your ancestors.\u00a0 And part of that process is uncovering old records like baptism and marriage records.\u00a0 One record leads to an older record, and so on back in time.\u00a0 What is the oldest record you have ever discovered related to an ancestor?<\/p>\n

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One of the oldest records I’ve uncovered is a baptismal record for my seventh great-grandfather, Joannis Martin Goss\u00e9.\u00a0 He was baptized March 25, 1691 at St. Remi Catholic Church in Baerendorf, Alsace, France.<\/p>\n

\"Baptism<\/a><\/p>\n

What makes this record interesting is the signature (or mark) of his father, my eighth great-grandfather, Christian Goss\u00e9, seen as a figure-eight symbol at the bottom.\u00a0 Years later in 1717 he used the same symbol to sign this son’s marriage record.<\/p>\n

Of course it was not uncommon for people of the era to be illiterate.\u00a0 Records from this time are filled with symbols representing the signatures of parents, brides and grooms.<\/p>\n

See the Joannis Martin and Margaretha Goss\u00e9<\/a> family group sheet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of the fun of genealogy is discovering your ancestors.\u00a0 And part of that process is uncovering old records like baptism and marriage records.\u00a0 One record leads to an older record, and so on back in time.\u00a0 What is the oldest record you have ever discovered related to an ancestor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evidence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}