{"id":17369,"date":"2023-12-04T23:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17369"},"modified":"2023-12-04T23:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:55:20","slug":"would-the-lost-have-inherited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/would-the-lost-have-inherited\/","title":{"rendered":"Would the Lost have Inherited?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was that relative you cannot find an heir to any other relative? If so, have you looked into that relative&#8217;s probate or estate file to see if the missing relative is mentioned? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cousin of my great-grandmother disappeared in the 1920s. His brother died without children in the late 1940s without a will.  For that brother&#8217;s estate to be settled, the missing brother had to be addressed. While the missing brother could not be found, the court record mentioned when the missing brother was last seen; discussed the search attempts made to locate him; and declared him legally dead so the estate could be settled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that case, the court record did not provide the location I was looking for, but there have been others where &#8220;missing&#8221; relatives came out of the woodwork or were located when there was an estate settled in which they had an interest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was that relative you cannot find an heir to any other relative? If so, have you looked into that relative&#8217;s probate or estate file to see if the missing relative is mentioned? A cousin of my great-grandmother disappeared in the 1920s. His brother died without children in the late 1940s without a will. For that [&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-17369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369","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=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}