{"id":52555,"date":"2019-09-10T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=52555"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:51:14","slug":"using-obituary-clues-are-you-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/using-obituary-clues-are-you-related.html","title":{"rendered":"Using Obituary Clues: Are You Related?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening the newspaper the other day, I read an obituary and thought: I don\u2019t know him \u2013 but he is likely my relative.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52559\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52559\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/laconia-daily-sun-newspaper-0823-2019-robert-chase-obituary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/laconia-daily-sun-newspaper-0823-2019-robert-chase-obituary.png\" alt=\"An obitury for Robert Chase, Laconia Daily Sun newspaper article 23 August 2019\" width=\"845\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/laconia-daily-sun-newspaper-0823-2019-robert-chase-obituary.png 845w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/laconia-daily-sun-newspaper-0823-2019-robert-chase-obituary-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/laconia-daily-sun-newspaper-0823-2019-robert-chase-obituary-768x338.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Laconia Daily Sun (Laconia, New Hampshire) 23 August 2019, page 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To find out, I went online and found other records for him and his parents. Checking my family tree and looking deeper in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/\">GenealogyBank<\/a>, I was able to use census records, obituaries and newspaper articles, as well as other sources, to construct that part of our tree.<\/p>\n<p>In minutes I was able to see how we are both related.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52565\" style=\"width: 1279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo-0910-2019-robert-chase-family-tree.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo-0910-2019-robert-chase-family-tree.png\" alt=\"Photo: a family tree for Robert Chase\" width=\"1279\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo-0910-2019-robert-chase-family-tree.png 1279w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo-0910-2019-robert-chase-family-tree-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo-0910-2019-robert-chase-family-tree-768x322.png 768w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo-0910-2019-robert-chase-family-tree-1024x429.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: FamilySearch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> With the power of online newspapers, census and other records today, it is possible to discover cousins you have never met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about using the clues in an obituary to see how the deceased fits into his family tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,1084],"class_list":["post-52555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-obituaries"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo-0810-2016-cemetery.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52555","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=52555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}