{"id":15229,"date":"2022-05-17T15:34:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15229"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:34:46","slug":"what-do-you-leave-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/17\/what-do-you-leave-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Leave Behind?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tinsley-enoch-tombstone-blue-ridge-cemetery-shelby-county-indiana.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tinsley-enoch-tombstone-blue-ridge-cemetery-shelby-county-indiana.jpg 540w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/tinsley-enoch-tombstone-blue-ridge-cemetery-shelby-county-indiana-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the genealogist, there&#8217;s nothing like visiting a cemetery&#8211;especially one a distance from your home where your ancestors are buried. I love to visit and get my own pictures, even if there may be better photographs available elsewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But think about what you leave behind you on that visit. I will go and get flowers to leave on the grave, but the only flowers I get are a small group of fresh-cut ones with no metal or plastic as a part of them. That way all I am leaving at the stone is a small amount of plant material that will wither and decay just like the grass clippings. I do not like to leave something that someone else will have to pick up, will get caught in a lawnmower, or otherwise require any sort of maintenance that I myself cannot deal with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the genealogist, there&#8217;s nothing like visiting a cemetery&#8211;especially one a distance from your home where your ancestors are buried. I love to visit and get my own pictures, even if there may be better photographs available elsewhere. But think about what you leave behind you on that visit. I will go and get flowers [&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-15229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229","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=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}