{"id":27596,"date":"2025-07-19T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=27596"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:31:59","slug":"buried-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/buried-assumptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Buried Assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The church\u2019s funeral register indicated the first funeral at the church was in 1880. For a brief moment, I assumed that would be the first burial in the church\u2019s cemetery as well. Not so. A physical search of the cemetery\u2019s tombstones indicated a burial there in the mid-1870s. It could be that the cemetery was not originally associated with the church, that the church\u2019s earlier records are missing, that the burials were conducted by a pastor from another church before the church in question was formed, or something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my assumption that I had the first records of the church and that there could be nothing before that was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check your assumptions before your own research gets buried by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about research methods and analysis in Michael\u2019s newsletter&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Casefile Clues<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church\u2019s funeral register indicated the first funeral at the church was in 1880. For a brief moment, I assumed that would be the first burial in the church\u2019s cemetery as well. Not so. A physical search of the cemetery\u2019s tombstones indicated a burial there in the mid-1870s. It could be that the cemetery 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-27596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27596","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=27596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}