{"id":110,"date":"2008-12-23T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:03:31","slug":"hunt-is-on-for-phony-pows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/hunt-is-on-for-phony-pows.html","title":{"rendered":"Hunt is on for phony POW&#8217;s&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><strong>Today&#8217;s <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> has an interesting article by Steve Mills about Mary and Chuck Schantag of the P.O.W. Network who say they have exposed close to 1,900 people who have falsely claimed to be prisoners of war. <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-stolenhonordec23,0,3910740.story\">Click here to read the article &#8220;<em>Hunt is on for Phony POW&#8217;s<\/em>&#8220;<\/span>. <\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\">A quick check of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/enter\/gblog\">GenealogyBank<\/a> shows almost one million articles about POW&#8217;s, documenting their brutal experiences. It is an excellent source for verifying these claims.<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">TIP: Use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/enter\/gblog\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">GenealogyBank<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"> to search for previously published news articles that can expand on the details you find written in an obituary notice. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Chicago Tribune has an interesting article by Steve Mills about Mary and Chuck Schantag of the P.O.W. Network who say they have exposed close to 1,900 people who have falsely claimed to be prisoners of war. Click here to read the article &#8220;Hunt is on for Phony POW&#8217;s&#8220;. A quick check of GenealogyBank shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1153,5179,1129,1661,804,1829,1874,5366,1068,5370,800,462,805,1069],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-family","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-idaho-daily-statesman","tag-in","tag-ms","tag-news","tag-obituary","tag-people","tag-pow","tag-tip","tag-tip-don","tag-war"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67137,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/67137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}