{"id":759,"date":"2012-04-18T19:07:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2012-04-18T19:07:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T19:07:31","slug":"obituaries-getting-all-the-clues-free-video-ppt-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/obituaries-getting-all-the-clues-free-video-ppt-download.html","title":{"rendered":"Obituaries: Getting All the Clues\u2014Free Video &#038; PPT Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I like to re-read Val D. Greenwood\u2019s \u201cResearcher\u2019s Guide to American Genealogy\u201d (for a copy call: 1-866-641-3297).<\/p>\n<p>It is a good review of core genealogical records.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, let\u2019s review the core value of newspapers: obituaries.<\/p>\n<p>Obituaries are a key genealogical resource, providing a wealth of detail about the specific ancestor you\u2019re researching as well as clues to push your family history searches into new\u2014and sometimes unexpected\u2014directions.<\/p>\n<p>GenealogyBank recently held a webinar covering how you can best use obituaries in your genealogy research. The video recording of the genealogy webinar and the accompanying obituaries PowerPoint presentation are available below.<\/p>\n<p>[like-to-dl theme=&#8221;blue&#8221; url=&#8221;https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/wp-content\/themes\/genealogybank\/download\/powerpoints\/Genealogy-Research-with-Obituaries-April-2012.ppt&#8221; like_url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GenealogyBank&#8221; message=&#8221;Click the \u201cLike\u201d button to like us on Facebook and get the PPT presentation from our webinar: \u201cObituaries: Getting all the clues.\u201d&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Watch the genealogy webinar about researching obituaries for family history information now!<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zNrCIceE2jI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center>Can&#8217;t see video above? Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/zNrCIceE2jI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obituaries: Clues to Look For<\/a> on the GenealogyBank YouTube channel instead.<\/p>\n<p>We can do this! It\u2019s a great day for genealogy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I like to re-read Val D. Greenwood\u2019s \u201cResearcher\u2019s Guide to American Genealogy\u201d (for a copy call: 1-866-641-3297). It is a good review of core genealogical records. With that in mind, let\u2019s review the core value of newspapers: obituaries. Obituaries are a key genealogical resource, providing a wealth of detail about the specific ancestor [&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":[1129,12,1661,2191,1084,5426,5430,1847,5451,1846],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-family","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-history","tag-obituaries","tag-records","tag-research","tag-resources","tag-video","tag-webinar-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108513,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/108513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}