{"id":22953,"date":"2024-12-01T05:19:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T11:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=22953"},"modified":"2024-12-01T05:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T11:19:34","slug":"reminders-from-a-pallbearer-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/reminders-from-a-pallbearer-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminders from a Pallbearer List"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are several genealogy reminders from this 1962 funeral notice from a newspaper in Quincy, Illinois. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It never hurts to search digital images of newspapers for people even when “you know everything about them.” That’s how I originally located this item when searching for my great uncle Alvin Ufkes in a database of newspaper clippings on Ancestry.com<\/em>. I had not seen the item until I performed that search. My uncle had been a pallbearer at the funeral for his great aunt Anna Buhrmeister. Four of the other pallbearers were names I recognized as members of the same family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original database of newspaper clippings where I found the funeral notice did not include the precise date of publication. I wanted that and decided to search for the item in the complete set of digitized newspapers which were not available when this item was originally located. I searched that database for Alvin Ufkes–the person I used to locate the item in the clipping collection–and did not find it. I finally located it by searching for another name. That’s a good reminder that OCR indexes may not locate every reference to every name in a newspaper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I have to see if I can determine how that sixth pallbearer is related to the deceased–if he is related at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are several genealogy reminders from this 1962 funeral notice from a newspaper in Quincy, Illinois. It never hurts to search digital images of newspapers for people even when “you know everything about them.” That’s how I originally located this item when searching for my great uncle Alvin Ufkes in a database of newspaper clippings […]<\/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-22953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953","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=22953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}