{"id":6926,"date":"2017-07-10T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2017-07-10T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:31:12","slug":"notate-what-you-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/10\/notate-what-you-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Notate What You Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the stone of John H. Ufkes, I noticed that the name and dates appeared to be a newer, &#8220;cleaner&#8221; cut than the rest of the stone&#8211;particularly the verse on the bottom that I could not read because it was nearly weathered away.<\/p>\n<p>When asking someone about it, I was told that his grandchildren had &#8220;gone in together&#8221; and had the name and vital dates &#8220;recut&#8221; into the stone. It almost looked like the name area of the stone had been &#8220;cut away&#8221; slightly so that the name could be reinscribed.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not certain of just how it was done, I should make a note that part of the inscription has been &#8220;redone.&#8221; If it appears that a stone has been some how modified or improved some time after the inscription, make a note of that. It may not be obvious from the pictures you take.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6927\" style=\"width: 821px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6927\" class=\"wp-image-6927 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/john-u-ufkes-stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"811\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/john-u-ufkes-stone.jpg 811w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/john-u-ufkes-stone-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/john-u-ufkes-stone-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/john-u-ufkes-stone-624x382.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John H. Ufkes stone, Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>\u00a0is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank.\u00a0<\/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>When I saw the stone of John H. Ufkes, I noticed that the name and dates appeared to be a newer, &#8220;cleaner&#8221; cut than the rest of the stone&#8211;particularly the verse on the bottom that I could not read because it was nearly weathered away. When asking someone about it, I was told that his [&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-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","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=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}