{"id":25830,"date":"2025-06-03T17:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25830"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:44:54","slug":"citing-tombstones-not-in-my-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/citing-tombstones-not-in-my-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing Tombstones Not in my Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/geske-newspaper-example-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"641\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/geske-newspaper-example-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/geske-newspaper-example-1.jpg 641w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/geske-newspaper-example-1-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A March 1960 issue of the Mt. Sterling Democrat published a list of burials in the Becam Cemetery in Brown County, Illinois. It included references to Henrich and Geske Miller, along with their dates of birth and death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I&#8217;m using this as my source for their burial information and their dates of birth and death, then all my citations should be to this newspaper article&#8211;not to the tombstone or records of the cemetery. That&#8217;s because when we create genealogy citations we site what we use and in this case I used the newspaper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not want to indicate I saw the tombstone when I did not. I won&#8217;t know what is on the stone exactly until I see it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: It turns out the stone indicates a Henrich Mueller died on 6 March 1880 at the age of 81 years 1 month and 23 days. Gesche&#8217;s stone is more difficult to read, but the Find A Grave memorial has an age and death date listed&#8211;but it&#8217;s unknown if that was legible or obtained from somewhere else. If I use this information, I would cite Find A Grave&#8211;because that is what I used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I get myself to the cemetery, then I can site the tombstone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A March 1960 issue of the Mt. Sterling Democrat published a list of burials in the Becam Cemetery in Brown County, Illinois. It included references to Henrich and Geske Miller, along with their dates of birth and death. If I&#8217;m using this as my source for their burial information and their dates of birth and [&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-25830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830","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=25830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}