{"id":15476,"date":"2022-07-07T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15476"},"modified":"2022-07-07T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:49:06","slug":"using-the-funeral-guest-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/07\/using-the-funeral-guest-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Funeral Guest Register"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many funeral homes have a register for guests can sign as they arrive to pay their respects to the deceased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These registers can be a great to get names of potential relatives and associates of the deceased and to know that they were alive at the time of the funeral.  They can also be a great memory jogging tool when interviewing relatives of the deceased for additional information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Names of some individuals may be difficult to read and all you usually will have is their signature. It&#8217;s worth noting that many times individuals go into the funeral home or mortuary together&#8211;look at adjacent names for clues as to what the difficult-to-read name might be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Relatives&#8221; who signed are often part of the larger family network, often related by marriage&#8211;some of which may have ended before the deceased individual passed away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many funeral homes have a register for guests can sign as they arrive to pay their respects to the deceased. These registers can be a great to get names of potential relatives and associates of the deceased and to know that they were alive at the time of the funeral. They can also be a [&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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476","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=15476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}