{"id":10947,"date":"2019-12-03T14:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:51:05","slug":"how-did-it-get-passed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/03\/how-did-it-get-passed-down\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did It Get Passed Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A first cousin of my great-grandfather and his wife had only one daughter. She was a child that they adopted when she was fairly young. Years after she died, a son of that daughter contacted me and asked me if I wanted pictures he had of my great-great-grandfather&#8217;s brother and other family members.  I said yes after making certain he really did not want to keep them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was concerned that no one in his family would want the pictures when he died and, since they weren&#8217;t biologically related to the family, he was also afraid that would increase the chance someone just threw them out when he passed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several lessons here: think about what may happen to your pictures and other ephemera when you pass away and consider how someone may end up with things in a way that is potentially unexpected. The pictures could easily have ended up in an antique mall, flea market, or dump if I had not been given them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Genealogy Tip of the Day <\/em>book is just about ready!\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2pJsbdp\" target=\"_blank\">Add your name to be notified when it is ready for distribution<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first cousin of my great-grandfather and his wife had only one daughter. She was a child that they adopted when she was fairly young. Years after she died, a son of that daughter contacted me and asked me if I wanted pictures he had of my great-great-grandfather&#8217;s brother and other family members. I said [&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-10947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947","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=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}