{"id":6034,"date":"2017-01-15T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2017-01-15T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T15:37:17","slug":"every-paper-has-a-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/15\/every-paper-has-a-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Paper Has A Purpose&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 1915 document gives the mailing addresses of heirs in a probate case without stating any relationships to the deceased. That is intentional. The purpose of this document was to verify that heirs had been mailed a notice regarding the estate. Other documents explained the relationships. Every document in a court record has a specific purpose and it is probably not to leave behind information for genealogists. Make certain to look at every record in a file. Papers that &#8220;look boring&#8221; may contain the most information. <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nancy-harper-heirs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6035\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nancy-harper-heirs.jpg\" alt=\"nancy-harper-heirs\" width=\"926\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nancy-harper-heirs.jpg 926w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nancy-harper-heirs-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nancy-harper-heirs-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nancy-harper-heirs-624x493.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1915 document gives the mailing addresses of heirs in a probate case without stating any relationships to the deceased. That is intentional. The purpose of this document was to verify that heirs had been mailed a notice regarding the estate. Other documents explained the relationships. Every document in a court record has a specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","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\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}