{"id":10691,"date":"2019-10-05T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10691"},"modified":"2019-10-04T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T03:35:07","slug":"tracking-every-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/05\/tracking-every-signature\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Every Signature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While analyzing a document to determine if I had the right person, the comparison of signatures became a crucial part of my analysis.  I had several copies of the person&#8217;s signature from other documents I had located on him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I worked on my analysis, I remembered that I had seen his signature somewhere else. Fortunately I also remembered where that signature was at: as a witness on an affidavit his cousin made in her 1880-era homestead application. Now to decide if it&#8217;s worth the time to include signature references in &#8220;file&#8221; on an ancestor so I can find them easily if needed. Signatures on their own records are easy to find. It&#8217;s when they appear in the records of others that they can be overlooked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"993\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tracking-signatures.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tracking-signatures.jpg 993w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tracking-signatures-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tracking-signatures-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While analyzing a document to determine if I had the right person, the comparison of signatures became a crucial part of my analysis. I had several copies of the person&#8217;s signature from other documents I had located on him. As I worked on my analysis, I remembered that I had seen his signature somewhere else. [&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-10691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691","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=10691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}