{"id":15909,"date":"2022-11-01T21:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15909"},"modified":"2022-11-02T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:10:56","slug":"obit-search-for-maiden-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/01\/obit-search-for-maiden-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Obit Search for Maiden Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maiden-name-obituary-search.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maiden-name-obituary-search.jpg 713w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maiden-name-obituary-search-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When searching old newspapers for obituaries, consider searching for the woman\u2019s maiden name. The 1931 obituary of Sarah Graves in a Macon, Missouri, newspaper refers to her twice: once as Mrs. Thomas M. Graves and once as Sarah Ellen Newman (her maiden name). About every other reference to her is \u201cshe.\u201d Not all obituaries will list a woman the way Sarah is in this obituary, but it was a common practice during this time period. Searching for parents\u2019 names as well may be a good idea\u2013even if they had been dead for fifty years and had never lived in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When searching old newspapers for obituaries, consider searching for the woman\u2019s maiden name. The 1931 obituary of Sarah Graves in a Macon, Missouri, newspaper refers to her twice: once as Mrs. Thomas M. Graves and once as Sarah Ellen Newman (her maiden name). About every other reference to her is \u201cshe.\u201d Not all obituaries will [&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-15909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909","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=15909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}