{"id":34623,"date":"2026-06-25T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=34623"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:10:06","slug":"warm-body-witnesses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/warm-body-witnesses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm Body Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A witness is just that: a witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes witnesses are individuals who have known for years the person for whom they are witnessing a document. Sometimes witnesses are relatives of the person for whom they are witnessing the document.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/witnesses-august-newman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/witnesses-august-newman.jpg 732w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/witnesses-august-newman-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/witnesses-august-newman-624x367.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And sometimes they are warm bodies of legal age who know the identity of the person, that the person appears to be of legal age themselves, and that the person appears to be of sound mind. That\u2019s the essential legal requirement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t assume witnesses are relatives. They could be. But they don\u2019t have to be. Research them to find out who they are, but don\u2019t force a deeper connection where none may exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A witness is just that: a witness. Sometimes witnesses are individuals who have known for years the person for whom they are witnessing a document. Sometimes witnesses are relatives of the person for whom they are witnessing the document. And sometimes they are warm bodies of legal age who know the identity of the person, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623","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=34623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}