{"id":11725,"date":"2020-05-23T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11725"},"modified":"2020-05-23T23:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:41:14","slug":"where-do-i-put-the-probably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/23\/where-do-i-put-the-probably\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do I put the &#8220;Probably?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My relative&#8217;s tombstone in a Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois, cemetery indicated that she died in 1877. The place of death is not given and I&#8217;m not certain where she died&#8211;at least not exactly. I do have a fairly good hunch as to where she died&#8211;at least as far as the name of the township. I probably know where she died. Based on the tombstone (and the death record at the church), I have the date of death. But I need to exercise some care when I comment somewhere about her place of birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Died in 1877 probably in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li><li>Probably died in 1877 in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I use the first suggestion and put the &#8220;probably&#8221; after the year or date of her death. That is because the 1877 seems pretty solid based on my sources; it is the location that is more conjectural. My statement needs to reflect that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course I need to cite the tombstone and the funeral entry in the church records for this person&#8217;s date of death and place of burial. There&#8217;s no &#8220;probably&#8221; in that statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My relative&#8217;s tombstone in a Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois, cemetery indicated that she died in 1877. The place of death is not given and I&#8217;m not certain where she died&#8211;at least not exactly. I do have a fairly good hunch as to where she died&#8211;at least as far as the name of the township. I [&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-11725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725","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=11725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}