{"id":889,"date":"2009-10-30T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findyourdead.com\/wp\/?p=889"},"modified":"2010-08-28T07:21:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T14:21:47","slug":"verifying-widow-susans-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Verifying Widow Susan’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scholefield Family Tree<\/h3>\n

I have some cool stories now! And before I swallow all of the data hook, line, and sinker, I will verify what I can through a few resources.<\/p>\n

If you have not recently visited the FamilySearch Record Search Pilot site, you should do so! They are adding more free information. Including a batch of vital records for Michigan. If Ferlazzo’s information is correct, Susan Thomas DeGraff’s death certificate will be available there. And it is!* (Click on the image to see the entire record.)<\/p>\n

\"Susan<\/a><\/p>\n

The Widow Susan did move to Michigan! The record verifies her name, place, and the date. We can calculate a date of birth based on her age. However, the record unfortunately doesn’t provide specific information about her parents and they are listed as ” —— Thomas & —— Thomas.”<\/p>\n

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*Michigan Secretary of State, death registers, Jackson County, 1892: p. 7, no. 137, Susan De Graff; digital image, “Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897,” FamilySearch Record Search<\/em>\u00a0(http:\/\/pilot.familysearch.org: 30 Oct 2009). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scholefield Family Tree I have some cool stories now! And before I swallow all of the data hook, line, and sinker, I will verify what I can through a few resources. If you have not recently visited the FamilySearch Record Search Pilot site, you should do so! They are adding more free information. Including a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[46,125,142],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-records-findings","tag-degraff","tag-scholefield","tag-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}