{"id":11361,"date":"2020-02-29T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11361"},"modified":"2020-02-29T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T15:18:13","slug":"days-beyond-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/29\/days-beyond-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Beyond Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/days-beyond-recall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/days-beyond-recall.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/days-beyond-recall-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Obituaries and estate notices usually appear in newspapers shortly after someone dies. There are other times a person may be mentioned years or decades after their death or departure from the area. Some small-town newspapers published snippets of items from the past as a way to engage readers and generate subscriptions. These items from ten, twenty, twenty-five, or fifty years ago were usually abbreviated versions of the original article. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that earlier newspapers are sometimes harder for computerized algorithms to read, a digital search may find the more recent reference easier. Don&#8217;t always set your years of search to the person&#8217;s lifespan. The most interesting references may have been published some time after they were dead.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And always go back and read the original reference for additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituaries and estate notices usually appear in newspapers shortly after someone dies. There are other times a person may be mentioned years or decades after their death or departure from the area. Some small-town newspapers published snippets of items from the past as a way to engage readers and generate subscriptions. These items from ten, [&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-11361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11361","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=11361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}