{"id":16420,"date":"2023-03-19T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T12:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2023-03-19T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T12:51:28","slug":"probate-clues-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/probate-clues-to-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Probate Clues to Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your ancestor&#8217;s probate file may contain clues to their church membership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A will may mention a bequest to a church or a minister. The expenses paid by the estate may mention a donation made to a church after the funeral or a direct payment made to the minister who provided the funeral sermon. Other payments from the estate may suggest the denomination of which the deceased was a member. An inventory of the estate (if the location, time period, and denomination is right) may mention a pew in the local church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is possible that there may be other indirect clues as to your relative&#8217;s religious persuasion in their probate file. Take a good hard look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/0Gb4mBG\">Check out Ancestry\u2019s DNA sale\u2013maybe you can purchase your own kit or a test kit for that relative you\u2019ve been wanting to ask.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your ancestor&#8217;s probate file may contain clues to their church membership. A will may mention a bequest to a church or a minister. The expenses paid by the estate may mention a donation made to a church after the funeral or a direct payment made to the minister who provided the funeral sermon. Other payments [&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-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","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=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}