{"id":6648,"date":"2017-05-16T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T19:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2017-05-16T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:08:22","slug":"assuming-it-is-the-one-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/16\/assuming-it-is-the-one-nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"Assuming It Is the One Nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an honest mistake, but it makes a good point.<\/p>\n<p>My aunt moved several states away from her childhood home, but was buried &#8220;back home&#8221; with her parents in the &#8220;MapleGrove Cemetery.&#8221; The obituary for her in her local newspaper only indicated she was to be buried in the MapleGrove Cemetery. \u00a0No city or state of burial was listed.<\/p>\n<p>A researcher saw the obituary and assumed that my aunt was buried in the nearest MapleGrove Cemetery she could find&#8211;in the state where my aunt died, not where she was buried. This cemetery was actually a hundred miles from where my aunt died, but in the same state&#8211;<em>it was <strong>not<\/strong> within a few miles of her home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes papers leave out &#8220;obvious&#8221; details. Sometimes they simply leave out important details.<\/p>\n<p>Never add something to a document or record that is not there. Transcribe as it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve changed a few details to protect the innocent, but the essence of this story is true.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank. <\/em>Try their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an honest mistake, but it makes a good point. My aunt moved several states away from her childhood home, but was buried &#8220;back home&#8221; with her parents in the &#8220;MapleGrove Cemetery.&#8221; The obituary for her in her local newspaper only indicated she was to be buried in the MapleGrove Cemetery. \u00a0No city or [&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-6648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648","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=6648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}