{"id":116,"date":"2009-02-10T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:04:02","slug":"obituary-key-to-finding-missing-heir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/obituary-key-to-finding-missing-heir.html","title":{"rendered":"Obituary key to finding missing heir &#8211; Tulsa, OK man receives $200,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><strong>Nicholas Grod of Portland, Oregon used an online obituary to track down the rightful heir to a fortune in US Government bonds that he found hidden in his basement. <\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><strong>KATU-TV (Portland, OR) reports that last year Grod was cleaning out the basement of his Portland, Oregon home and found a homemade box wedged under a shelf. In it he found $200,000 in US Bonds, family photographs, a letter and clues to the person who had left them there.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\">Nicholas Grod used the Internet to track down the details about the previous owners of the house. He had reached a dead-end in the census &#8211; but &#8220;but an online obituary led Grod to a grandson named Thomas Fagg who lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma.&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><strong>From that online obituary Nicholas Grod made contact with Thomas Fagg, now 2,000 miles away, and sent him the box and valuables that he had found hidden in his basement. <\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><strong>Wow &#8211; Thomas Fagg was thrilled to receive those family photos &#8211; he didn&#8217;t have any pictures of his grandfather &#8211; he was also pleased to receive the bonds. \u201cThere are no words in the English language that can express the gratitude and admiration I have for this man for being so, so honest,\u201d Fagg said.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:Trebuchet MS;\">You can see the entire KATU-TV interview with Nicholas Grod and Thomas Fagg at: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/39350242.html?video=YHI&amp;t=a\">http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/39350242.html?video=YHI&amp;t=a<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Grod of Portland, Oregon used an online obituary to track down the rightful heir to a fortune in US Government bonds that he found hidden in his basement. KATU-TV (Portland, OR) reports that last year Grod was cleaning out the basement of his Portland, Oregon home and found a homemade box wedged under a [&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":[1142,5304,1129,2154,1086,1758,5311,1829,797,1874,5366,793,1068,1066,1929,1075,798,2597,1050,796,5446,794,1054,481,494,5451],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-census","tag-english","tag-family","tag-family-photos","tag-government","tag-grandfather","tag-grandson","tag-in","tag-japan","tag-ms","tag-news","tag-nicholas-grod","tag-obituary","tag-oklahoma","tag-or","tag-oregon","tag-period-start","tag-photos","tag-portland","tag-russia","tag-thomas","tag-thomas-fagg","tag-tulsa","tag-tv","tag-us","tag-video"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","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=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67139,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/67139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}