{"id":11553,"date":"2020-04-16T14:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11553"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:15:59","slug":"was-there-an-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/16\/was-there-an-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Was there an Outbreak?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If your relative died of any sort of contagious disease, check local newspapers for any mention of an outbreak. The death certificate should list the cause of death, but it won&#8217;t indicate whether it was an isolated incident or if there were others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak may be mentioned in the local newspaper&#8211;even if your ancestor is not named specifically. Newspapers can be a great way to learn about your relative even if her name is not specifically mentioned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Warsaw, Illinois, newspaper referenced a case of Smallpox in Stillwell, Illinois, in 1902. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/smallpox-stillwell.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/smallpox-stillwell.jpg 465w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/smallpox-stillwell-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your relative died of any sort of contagious disease, check local newspapers for any mention of an outbreak. The death certificate should list the cause of death, but it won&#8217;t indicate whether it was an isolated incident or if there were others. The outbreak may be mentioned in the local newspaper&#8211;even if your ancestor [&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-11553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11553","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=11553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}