{"id":10166,"date":"2019-06-20T10:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2019-06-20T10:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:22:01","slug":"never-assume-they-arent-in-the-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/20\/never-assume-they-arent-in-the-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Assume They Aren&#8217;t in the Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/parker-virginia-petition-newspaper-notice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/parker-virginia-petition-newspaper-notice.jpg 932w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/parker-virginia-petition-newspaper-notice-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/parker-virginia-petition-newspaper-notice-768x372.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be tempting to assume that &#8220;my people won&#8217;t be in the newspaper&#8221; as they never did anything worthy of note and they &#8220;weren&#8217;t in the right class of people&#8221; to be in the paper. That can be a mistake. This rural Virginia family lost their farm to the state because their father&#8217;s will was never recorded and he was never married to their mother. They eventually had to petition the state to get the title cleared up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s always worth a look. Assuming they are not in the paper can be a mistake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be tempting to assume that &#8220;my people won&#8217;t be in the newspaper&#8221; as they never did anything worthy of note and they &#8220;weren&#8217;t in the right class of people&#8221; to be in the paper. That can be a mistake. This rural Virginia family lost their farm to the state because their father&#8217;s will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}