{"id":25500,"date":"2025-05-15T09:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25500"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:49:46","slug":"reminders-about-obituaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/reminders-about-obituaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminders About Obituaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot of obituaries since I started genealogy research in the 1980s. A few quick reminders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Not every obituary is complete. Spouses, children, survivors, and other details can be omitted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most obituaries are not checked for accuracy. The newspaper or funeral home takes the family at their word&#8211;usually.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stated relationships may not be entirely accurate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Space or cost may have played a role. Obituary charges or space limitations may have impacted what was published. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Errors are not always intentional. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relationships may not be clear. Sometimes long lists of survivors are poorly edited and can easily be interpreted in more than one way.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not everyone had an obituary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These reasons are why it is always good to find as many obituaries as you can for a person and to research them for their family members as well&#8211;even if you are not related to all of them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot of obituaries since I started genealogy research in the 1980s. A few quick reminders: These reasons are why it is always good to find as many obituaries as you can for a person and to research them for their family members as well&#8211;even if you are not related to all of [&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-25500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500","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=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}