{"id":33003,"date":"2026-04-27T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=33003"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:30:57","slug":"searching-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/searching-before-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching Before Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_Nb1_CCOxgxnEkbqepCsaOxoPu-ernqUYviQR1olkZ-10-GcQ_PbAxeS2AaxuuU00pmcSaFAlVWse3jRZegUPNJDFwy3BwzG85FileTEgt7raNWeVX1fp4jbpZoZQR6wFMs_7kERus6Q3sTgvXrmnkg0Kle-pQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nancy-rampley-sick-before-death.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When manual searches of newspapers are necessary, don\u2019t neglect searching the gossip or local correspondents\u2019 columns&nbsp;<em>before<\/em>&nbsp;that relative dies as well as afterwards. If the person had \u201ctaken a turn\u201d or been ill for a few weeks or months before they died, there may be mention of it in the newspaper with details not mentioned after the death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The illustration mentions Nancy Rampley\u2019s illness in the paper not long before she actually died in 1923 and provided the name and residence of her sister. The name was slightly wrong, but it was a clue and the location was helpful as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When manual searches of newspapers are necessary, don\u2019t neglect searching the gossip or local correspondents\u2019 columns&nbsp;before&nbsp;that relative dies as well as afterwards. If the person had \u201ctaken a turn\u201d or been ill for a few weeks or months before they died, there may be mention of it in the newspaper with details not mentioned after [&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-33003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33003","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=33003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}