{"id":28449,"date":"2018-01-19T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=28449"},"modified":"2019-07-17T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:28:32","slug":"obituaries-add-critical-details-to-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/obituaries-add-critical-details-to-family-tree.html","title":{"rendered":"Obituaries Add Critical Details to Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, I am reminded to check every source.<\/p>\n

You may think you have all of your bases covered \u2013 but sometimes checking on one more source can fill in the details that you need.<\/p>\n

Take for example Frances (Ferris) Stark (1844-1930)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every time I looked at her name in the family tree, I assumed she was part of the large Ferris family that have lived for decades in Fairfield County, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

But, look closely at her obituary. It clearly states that she was born \u201cin County Cavan, Ireland, November 11, 1844.\u201d Details I didn\u2019t have before.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Daily Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 6 March 1930, Page 20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Based on this obituary search<\/a> I was able to add the complete date and the always important place of birth in Ireland.<\/p>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> When other sources simply say that a person was born in \u201cIreland,\u201d it is often newspapers that tell you WHERE in Ireland they were born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about uncovering the obituary of Frances (Ferris) Stark, from his family tree, and learning where in Ireland she was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12845],"tags":[12,2719,6586,2020],"class_list":["post-28449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-irish-american-history-genealogy","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-irish-american-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/photo-0810-2016-cemetery-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449","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=28449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}