{"id":8850,"date":"2018-08-29T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2018-08-29T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T17:35:50","slug":"tombstone-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/29\/tombstone-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Tombstone Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-8820\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/franzen-stone-back-1024x556.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/franzen-stone-back-1024x556.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/franzen-stone-back-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/franzen-stone-back-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/franzen-stone-back-624x339.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/franzen-stone-back.jpg 1195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/>Just about anything can appear on a tombstone&#8211;not just the dates of birth and death. Some immigrants had their place of birth inscribed on their tombstone and others may have included military service information. Any information on a stone should be compared to other sources, but never assume that the &#8220;stone won&#8217;t tell me anything I don&#8217;t already know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Learn more about research, methods, and sources in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/casefileclues.genealogytipoftheday.com\">Casefile Clues<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about anything can appear on a tombstone&#8211;not just the dates of birth and death. Some immigrants had their place of birth inscribed on their tombstone and others may have included military service information. Any information on a stone should be compared to other sources, but never assume that the &#8220;stone won&#8217;t tell me anything [&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-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","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=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}