{"id":32292,"date":"2026-02-23T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32292"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:03:45","slug":"no-kids-who-gave-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/no-kids-who-gave-data\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kids? Who Gave Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NZUwLKqAklt4knbV5c6jMCo9tVBpLbtcc6Wq3FkJFa7fMRS1Hm1-D7e9p3-qvSHV1HzbV8LkEt0YIKKXgMXRxUc6SjUxRnVaXaBhpRn-Fr8HtmLorX7Wkhq31_GpAS2vOftITIJzRI4L7zMkAhhMzigpQ-s=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/relative-informant-goldenstein.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracking down those aunts and uncles who had no descendants is advised because it helps give the researcher a complete picture of the entire family and it helps all members of the family to be remembered. Those are excellent reasons. But there\u2019s another reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some record on that relative with no children of their own could provide information on those relatives you can\u2019t find out more about. This 1980 death certificate for my aunt listed a sister-in-law as the informant\u2013complete with residential address in 1980. Had I been unable to track her down, the reference would have been extremely helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any record on that relative with no descendants could tell you more about your relative\u2019s life. It could also provide information on other family members as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drawback is that sometimes death certificates on these relatives only have \u201chospital records\u201d as the informant. But you will not know until you look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking down those aunts and uncles who had no descendants is advised because it helps give the researcher a complete picture of the entire family and it helps all members of the family to be remembered. Those are excellent reasons. But there\u2019s another reason. Some record on that relative with no children of their own [&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-32292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32292","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=32292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}