{"id":23318,"date":"2024-12-19T17:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=23318"},"modified":"2024-12-19T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T23:57:47","slug":"the-family-reunion-notice-in-the-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/the-family-reunion-notice-in-the-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family Reunion Notice in the Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are fortunate enough to find a newspaper reference to a family reunion that lists all the attendees, determine their connection to each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 1930s reference to a family reunion for one of my family contained the names of nearly eighty relatives. I thought they were all descendants of my 3rd great-grandparents. But when I went through the list, there were several individuals I could not connect to the known descendants of my 3rd great-grandparents (occasionally a friend of the family, long-time neighbor, or significant other of a relative will also attend). A little research indicated that three of those &#8220;non-relatives&#8221; were related to each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of that they were researched a little further and their ancestry traced a few generations further back. It turned out these three &#8220;non-relatives&#8221; were relatives&#8211; just not descendants of my 3rd great-grandparents. They were descendants of an uncle of my 3rd great-grandmother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going through a list of reunion attendees and determining their relationship to the family of focus for the reunion may result in new discoveries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are fortunate enough to find a newspaper reference to a family reunion that lists all the attendees, determine their connection to each other. A 1930s reference to a family reunion for one of my family contained the names of nearly eighty relatives. I thought they were all descendants of my 3rd great-grandparents. But [&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-23318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318","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=23318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}