{"id":13400,"date":"2021-05-05T07:06:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T12:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13400"},"modified":"2021-05-06T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:09:08","slug":"names-in-the-funeral-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/05\/names-in-the-funeral-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Names in the Funeral Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nIf you are working on a more recent relative and you&#8217;ve got a copy of their &#8220;funeral book,&#8221; look and see if the names of those who came to pay their respects are in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a good way to get ideas of who might have been your ancestor&#8217;s associates and who was alive when your ancestor died. They may have even written in their city of residence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also remember that people tend to &#8220;go in together&#8221; and adjacent names in the book may be closely related to each other, members of the same family, etc. Don&#8217;t neglect the clues of who is a &#8220;paper neighbor&#8221; to who.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there&#8217;s always their signatures&#8230;hopefully they are readable.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are working on a more recent relative and you&#8217;ve got a copy of their &#8220;funeral book,&#8221; look and see if the names of those who came to pay their respects are in the book. It is a good way to get ideas of who might have been your ancestor&#8217;s associates and who was [&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-13400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400","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=13400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}