{"id":12486,"date":"2020-11-10T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2020-11-11T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:31:32","slug":"the-eternal-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/the-eternal-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eternal Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Never look at a tombstone in isolation. Make a note who is buried in close proximity to your ancestor&#8211;it could be someone with a connection. A different last name on a nearby stone could be a married sister, a mother buried under a different husband&#8217;s last name, an aunt or uncle, other relative or close friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also possible that someone purchased eight spots in a plot of graves and, after years of not using the &#8220;last spot,&#8221; let someone totally unrelated have it or later sold it. The cemetery may (or may not) have those records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18700551_10211515067266632_7501473398561865671_o.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>West Point Cemetery, West Point, Hancock County, Illinois, taken 28 May 2017 by Michael John Neill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never look at a tombstone in isolation. Make a note who is buried in close proximity to your ancestor&#8211;it could be someone with a connection. A different last name on a nearby stone could be a married sister, a mother buried under a different husband&#8217;s last name, an aunt or uncle, other relative or close [&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-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","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=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}