{"id":11349,"date":"2020-02-25T11:03:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11349"},"modified":"2020-02-26T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:12:31","slug":"pre-death-newspaper-mentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/25\/pre-death-newspaper-mentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Death Newspaper Mentions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"505\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nancy-rampley-sick-before-death.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nancy-rampley-sick-before-death.jpg 505w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nancy-rampley-sick-before-death-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When manual searches of newspapers are necessary, don&#8217;t neglect searching the gossip or local correspondents&#8217; columns <em>before<\/em> that relative dies as well as afterwards. If the person had &#8220;taken a turn&#8221; or been ill for a few weeks or months before they died, there may be mention of it in the newspaper with details not mentioned after the death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The illustration mentions Nancy Rampley&#8217;s illness in the paper not long before she actually died in 1923 and provided the name and residence of her sister. The name was slightly wrong, but it was a clue and the location was helpful as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When manual searches of newspapers are necessary, don&#8217;t neglect searching the gossip or local correspondents&#8217; columns before that relative dies as well as afterwards. If the person had &#8220;taken a turn&#8221; or been ill for a few weeks or months before they died, there may be mention of it in the newspaper with details not [&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-11349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349","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=11349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}