{"id":10263,"date":"2019-07-12T01:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T06:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10263"},"modified":"2019-07-13T06:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T11:20:22","slug":"facial-recognitions-that-you-dont-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/facial-recognitions-that-you-dont-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial Recognitions That You Don&#8217;t See"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"483\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66709378_10217121159295429_6784080429499547648_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66709378_10217121159295429_6784080429499547648_n.jpg 483w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66709378_10217121159295429_6784080429499547648_n-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><figcaption><br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I really think my daughter bears a strong resemblance to my paternal grandmother, Ida (Trautvetter) Neill (1910-1994). Others may not agree and I&#8217;m not the only person who has a picture of an ancestor that they thinks look like another relative or one of their children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may not see the similarities that a relative sees between two pictures. Sometimes if we have a strong emotional connection to the people in the two pictures, seeing a resemblance between them may partially be due to our connection to the individuals and our desire to connect them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s ok and, because of the similarities that I see between these two pictures, I completely understand it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That does not mean that we rely on &#8220;that old picture of that woman kinda looks like my daughter, so it must my great-grandma&#8221; or other facial characteristics as proof of parentage or ancestry. It also does not mean that we reject a series of documents that consistently provide one date of birth when we &#8220;think they have to be wrong&#8221; because our gut says so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If seeing a facial similarity  between two identified people helps your relative to connect with their own past and to see their part in it, that&#8217;s ok&#8211;even if you don&#8217;t see the similarities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really think my daughter bears a strong resemblance to my paternal grandmother, Ida (Trautvetter) Neill (1910-1994). Others may not agree and I&#8217;m not the only person who has a picture of an ancestor that they thinks look like another relative or one of their children. You may not see the similarities that a relative [&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-10263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263","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=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}