{"id":2343,"date":"2010-08-26T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/26\/be-careful-inputting-relationships-from-obituaries"},"modified":"2010-08-26T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:05:00","slug":"be-careful-inputting-relationships-from-obituaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/26\/be-careful-inputting-relationships-from-obituaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful Inputting Relationships From Obituaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful using relationships from obituaries as your sole source of information for your database. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Modern obituaries especially may:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>not mention all children<\/li>\n<li>may not distinguish children from step-children<\/li>\n<li>may not indicate which spouse was the parents of which children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Any of these things can confuse later genealogists if you assume an obituary was entirely correct. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Best bet is to transcribe it (or scan it) and look for other materials to back it up. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful using relationships from obituaries as your sole source of information for your database. Modern obituaries especially may: not mention all children may not distinguish children from step-children may not indicate which spouse was the parents of which children Any of these things can confuse later genealogists if you assume an obituary was entirely [&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-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}