This can be a really gray area.<\/p>\n
My Grandma Neill\u00a0indicated that she didn’t know much about her one grandfather. After asking several times and getting little in the way of information, I stopped questioning her as it became apparent that I was not getting information and asking about him was starting to irritate her. \u00a0I eventually discovered the out-of-the way rural cemetery where this grandfather’s second wife was buried. While it was in the same general area where my family had lived, I had never been to the cemetery before as no other family members’ graves are located there.<\/p>\n
Grandma found out I was going to this cemetery and was very inquisitive<\/em> about why I was going there and whose grave I was looking for. She knew. Grandma would have been a teenager when her step-grandmother died and would have been aware at least of her death and burial. It was at that moment that I realized she knew exactly for whom I was looking in that cemetery.<\/p>\n Sometimes it’s best to try and keep peace with the living.<\/p>\n So…<\/p>\n I told her it was a “way back member” in one of my Grandpa Neill’s family.<\/p>\n I never mentioned it again.<\/p>\n I did record Grandma’s reaction to my cemetery visit in my notes on her as I felt it indicated she knew more about her grandfather’s family than she let on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This can be a really gray area. My Grandma Neill\u00a0indicated that she didn’t know much about her one grandfather. After asking several times and getting little in the way of information, I stopped questioning her as it became apparent that I was not getting information and asking about him was starting to irritate her. \u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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