{"id":13572,"date":"2021-06-04T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T01:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13572"},"modified":"2021-06-04T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T01:05:12","slug":"obits-as-fun-genealogy-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/obits-as-fun-genealogy-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Obits as &#8220;Fun&#8221; Genealogy Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/obituary-detail-determination.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/obituary-detail-determination.jpg 800w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/obituary-detail-determination-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/obituary-detail-determination-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A good genealogy activity is to see if you can determine who the unnamed relatives are in an obituary&#8211;particularly if the number of grand and great-grandchildren are mentioned. Of course these totals can be wrong, but an attempt at &#8220;proving&#8221; the number may lead to some discoveries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if pallbearers are mentioned, determine if they had a relationship to the deceased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of these activities may lead you to some new pieces of information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good genealogy activity is to see if you can determine who the unnamed relatives are in an obituary&#8211;particularly if the number of grand and great-grandchildren are mentioned. Of course these totals can be wrong, but an attempt at &#8220;proving&#8221; the number may lead to some discoveries. And if pallbearers are mentioned, determine if they [&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-13572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572","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=13572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}