{"id":17423,"date":"2023-12-20T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17423"},"modified":"2023-12-21T09:05:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:05:18","slug":"iconography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/iconography\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ruth-ufkes-stone-1024x970.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17424\" width=\"326\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ruth-ufkes-stone-1024x970.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ruth-ufkes-stone-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ruth-ufkes-stone-768x728.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ruth-ufkes-stone.jpg 1101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We had an eighth note put on the reverse of my great-aunt&#8217;s tombstone to symbolize her life-long interest in music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you encounter any iconography or image on an ancestral tombstone, make certain to determine what it symbolizes. There may be clues as to membership in a fraternal organization, religious community, ethnic background or more. Stones in non-traditional shapes may be symbolic of something as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be more clues on a stone than just what is written in words and numbers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorials.com\/info\/headstone-symbols-meanings\/\">This page has links to common images and their meanings. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had an eighth note put on the reverse of my great-aunt&#8217;s tombstone to symbolize her life-long interest in music. If you encounter any iconography or image on an ancestral tombstone, make certain to determine what it symbolizes. There may be clues as to membership in a fraternal organization, religious community, ethnic background or more. [&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-17423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423","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=17423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}