{"id":10142,"date":"2019-06-12T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2019-06-12T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T03:18:13","slug":"lessons-from-a-1954-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/12\/lessons-from-a-1954-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from a 1954 Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/connie-ufkes-neill-dorothy-habben-ufkes-charlotte-unknown-fred-tena-ufkes-farm-1954.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/connie-ufkes-neill-dorothy-habben-ufkes-charlotte-unknown-fred-tena-ufkes-farm-1954.jpg 900w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/connie-ufkes-neill-dorothy-habben-ufkes-charlotte-unknown-fred-tena-ufkes-farm-1954-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/connie-ufkes-neill-dorothy-habben-ufkes-charlotte-unknown-fred-tena-ufkes-farm-1954-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Running across this picture in my great-aunt&#8217;s collection of photographs made me remember several genealogical truths:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We sometimes don&#8217;t see the obvious&#8211;<em>I didn&#8217;t immediately recognize my mother in this photograph and might not have without the identification that was already written on it. Now I clearly recognize her. At first I did not<\/em>.<\/li><li>We need to view things in context<em>&#8211;other pictures on the same page provided additional information about this photograph that were not stated on photograph.<\/em><\/li><li>You may not recognize things that have changed<em>. I&#8217;ve been in the house this picture was taken in front of many times. I don&#8217;t recognize this back porch because it was altered when a den area was added to the back of the house in the 1960s<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running across this picture in my great-aunt&#8217;s collection of photographs made me remember several genealogical truths: We sometimes don&#8217;t see the obvious&#8211;I didn&#8217;t immediately recognize my mother in this photograph and might not have without the identification that was already written on it. Now I clearly recognize her. At first I did not. We need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}