{"id":16510,"date":"2023-04-08T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16510"},"modified":"2023-04-08T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:20:48","slug":"is-that-a-short-term-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/is-that-a-short-term-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Is that a Short-Term Reference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Found a reference to a cousin in the obituary of her father. The notice gave her name and residence at the time of her father&#8217;s death. I thought finding her would be easy after that. It was not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turned out that the marriage was a short-term one and that immediately afterwards she moved several states away and took back a previous last name. Obituaries on other family members suggested a different last name for the cousin and it took some time to figure out what happened after her father died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that an obituary, like most records, is a snapshot taken at one point in time. Some of the details of the person&#8217;s life may have changed shortly after the record was created. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found a reference to a cousin in the obituary of her father. The notice gave her name and residence at the time of her father&#8217;s death. I thought finding her would be easy after that. It was not. Turned out that the marriage was a short-term one and that immediately afterwards she moved several states [&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-16510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16510","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=16510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}