{"id":25047,"date":"2025-04-16T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25047"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:40:22","slug":"web-search-that-funeral-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/web-search-that-funeral-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Search that Funeral Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A relative died in rural Kansas in 1945. The obituary mentioned the funeral home. I didn&#8217;t think the home would still be in existence today under the same name and it wasn&#8217;t. However a web search for the name indicated the 1945-era home was mentioned in the history of a home currently in operation today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I reached out to them to see what records they have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funeral home records are private records, so I may not get a reply and the home today is under no obligation to give me any information from the records. However, it is worth a try. Politely asking about the records is the way to approach this&#8211;that and keeping my genealogy fingers crossed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relative died in rural Kansas in 1945. The obituary mentioned the funeral home. I didn&#8217;t think the home would still be in existence today under the same name and it wasn&#8217;t. However a web search for the name indicated the 1945-era home was mentioned in the history of a home currently in operation today. [&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":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25047","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=25047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}