{"id":20081,"date":"2024-06-11T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20081"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:59:38","slug":"searching-when-you-know-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/searching-when-you-know-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching When You Know &#8220;Everything&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some researchers ask \u201cWhy search for someone I already know \u2018everything\u2019 on?\u201d or someone \u201cI\u2019m not really researching?\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why. Because they can lead you to someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/anna-buhrmeister1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7154\" style=\"width:399px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/anna-buhrmeister1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/anna-buhrmeister1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A search for my great-uncle, Alvin Ufkes, located a reference to him as a pallbearer at the 1962 funeral in Quincy, Illinois, for sister of his grandmother .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I may never have located the death notice and the obituary for Anna Buhrmeister (a few days earlier) if I had not searched for my great-uncle in the collection from which this image was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some researchers ask \u201cWhy search for someone I already know \u2018everything\u2019 on?\u201d or someone \u201cI\u2019m not really researching?\u201d This is why. Because they can lead you to someone else. A search for my great-uncle, Alvin Ufkes, located a reference to him as a pallbearer at the 1962 funeral in Quincy, Illinois, for sister of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20081","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}