{"id":9882,"date":"2019-04-09T14:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9882"},"modified":"2019-04-09T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:26:32","slug":"reminders-from-uncle-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/reminders-from-uncle-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminders from Uncle Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9883 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/graves-thomas-tip-of-day-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/graves-thomas-tip-of-day-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/graves-thomas-tip-of-day-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/graves-thomas-tip-of-day.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/>Working on Uncle Thomas Graves has reminded me of several things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s good to work on a &#8220;new&#8221; person occasionally. It broadens your perspective and can provide insight into &#8220;old&#8221; problems.<\/li>\n<li>Never assume there can&#8217;t be &#8220;just one more marriage.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Never assume two names can&#8217;t be the same person.<\/li>\n<li>Have a local map handy that you can actually see while you work.<\/li>\n<li>Research everyone involved. They may be related in ways you don&#8217;t immediately notice.<\/li>\n<li>A grandchild who is the informant on a 98-year old woman&#8217;s death certificate may not be the most knowledgeable source.<\/li>\n<li>Someone may have the essence of something correct while not quite remembering the key details.<\/li>\n<li>Your first hunch may be wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thomas Graves died in March of 1912 in Macon, Missouri. We&#8217;re still working on his marriages, but his last wife was Sarah, nee Newman, born in Rush County, Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on Uncle Thomas Graves has reminded me of several things: It&#8217;s good to work on a &#8220;new&#8221; person occasionally. It broadens your perspective and can provide insight into &#8220;old&#8221; problems. Never assume there can&#8217;t be &#8220;just one more marriage.&#8221; Never assume two names can&#8217;t be the same person. Have a local map handy that [&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-9882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882","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=9882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}