{"id":11675,"date":"2020-05-12T21:56:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T02:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2020-05-12T21:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T02:56:37","slug":"it-will-still-be-there-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/12\/it-will-still-be-there-not\/","title":{"rendered":"It Will Still Be There&#8211;Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Obituaries on some funeral home websites are more detailed than the one that is eventually published in a print or online newspaper. The charge for the funeral home&#8217;s obituary is usually a part of the funeral cost and is not dependent on the length of the obituary (within reason). That&#8217;s not necessarily true for a print obituary which may end up being edited and reduced in length even if cost is not an issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not assume those funeral home website obituaries will always &#8220;be there for the taking.&#8221; That&#8217;s not the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While working on DNA matches, I needed the obituary of a distant cousin. I had a paper copy but did not have it handy. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter. I can get it on the funeral home website.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope. Not any more. The funeral home was bought out a few years ago and the new owner updated the site and the old obituaries were gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good reminder for me to make copies of obituaries when they run or when I discover them and not just think &#8220;it&#8217;ll still be there later.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituaries on some funeral home websites are more detailed than the one that is eventually published in a print or online newspaper. The charge for the funeral home&#8217;s obituary is usually a part of the funeral cost and is not dependent on the length of the obituary (within reason). That&#8217;s not necessarily true for a [&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-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675","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=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}