{"id":25068,"date":"2025-04-17T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25068"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T14:33:50","slug":"private-details-in-public-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/private-details-in-public-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Details in Public Materials?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the reasons newspapers are valuable resources for genealogists is because they are hard to \u201cclose\u201d once they have been published. Court cases may be sealed, but a newspaper reference to that court case is \u201cout\u201d forever. A birth certificate may be sealed if there is an adoption, but if the baby\u2019s birth was in the local newspaper\u2013it is still there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there\u2019s a record you cannot access, ask yourself what you are trying to find out or discover and are there other records that may provide that same information?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons newspapers are valuable resources for genealogists is because they are hard to \u201cclose\u201d once they have been published. Court cases may be sealed, but a newspaper reference to that court case is \u201cout\u201d forever. A birth certificate may be sealed if there is an adoption, but if the baby\u2019s birth was [&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-25068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068","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=25068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}