{"id":7153,"date":"2017-08-30T07:01:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2017-08-30T07:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:46:47","slug":"searching-for-people-i-already-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/searching-for-people-i-already-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for People I &#8220;Already Know About&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7154\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/anna-buhrmeister1-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/anna-buhrmeister1-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/anna-buhrmeister1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Some researchers ask &#8220;Why search for someone I already know &#8216;everything&#8217; on?&#8221; or someone &#8220;I&#8217;m not really researching?&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is why. Because they can lead you to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>A search for my great-uncle, Alvin Ufkes, located a reference to him as a pallbearer at the 1962 funeral in Quincy, Illinois, for sister of his grandmother .<\/p>\n<p>I may never have located the death notice and the obituary for Anna Buhrmeister (a few days earlier) if I had not searched for my great-uncle in the collection from which this image was taken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some researchers ask &#8220;Why search for someone I already know &#8216;everything&#8217; on?&#8221; or someone &#8220;I&#8217;m not really researching?&#8221; This is why. Because they can lead you to someone else. A search for my great-uncle, Alvin Ufkes, located a reference to him as a pallbearer at the 1962 funeral in Quincy, Illinois, for sister of 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-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153","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=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}