{"id":16523,"date":"2023-04-12T21:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T02:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16523"},"modified":"2023-04-13T19:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T00:12:47","slug":"where-does-it-probably-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/12\/where-does-it-probably-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does it Probably Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From a while back&#8211;a good reminder about &#8220;probably.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My relative\u2019s tombstone in a Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois, cemetery indicated that she died in 1877. The place of death is not given and I\u2019m not certain where she died\u2013at least not exactly. I do have a fairly good hunch as to where she died\u2013at least as far as the name of the township. I probably know where she died. Based on the tombstone (and the death record at the church), I have the date of death. But I need to exercise some care when I comment somewhere about her place of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Died in 1877 probably in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li><li>Probably died in 1877 in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I use the first suggestion and put the \u201cprobably\u201d after the year or date of her death. That is because the 1877 seems pretty solid based on my sources; it is the location that is more conjectural. My statement needs to reflect that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course I need to cite the tombstone and the funeral entry in the church records for this person\u2019s date of death and place of burial. There\u2019s no \u201cprobably\u201d in that statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a while back&#8211;a good reminder about &#8220;probably.&#8221; My relative\u2019s tombstone in a Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois, cemetery indicated that she died in 1877. The place of death is not given and I\u2019m not certain where she died\u2013at least not exactly. I do have a fairly good hunch as to where she died\u2013at least as [&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-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523","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=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}