{"id":11458,"date":"2020-03-24T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11458"},"modified":"2020-03-24T23:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:40:43","slug":"the-best-details-are-not-always-in-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/24\/the-best-details-are-not-always-in-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Details Are not Always in Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ida-trautvetter-neill-sarah-neill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11459\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ida-trautvetter-neill-sarah-neill.jpg 784w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ida-trautvetter-neill-sarah-neill-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ida-trautvetter-neill-sarah-neill-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the best pictures don&#8217;t always show the faces of the people in them. They tell a story without really letting us know what the individuals actually looked like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sometimes the documents that provide the biggest piece of genealogical information don&#8217;t always make any blunt, in-your-face, direct statements. A man purchases property in his own name in 1821, suggesting he was born by at least 1800. A man sells property in Massachusetts in 1780 and buried in the metes and bounds legal description is a reference to his mother (without stating her relationship), along with her new married name. An estate inventory in Illinois references income from a mortgage in Kentucky and researching that mortgage leads to major discoveries on the family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never overlook a reference because &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t show me what I want to know.&#8221; There may be an even bigger clue hiding&#8211;if you only look for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like this picture reminded me that Grandma Neill always wanted to make certain everyone got enough to eat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the best pictures don&#8217;t always show the faces of the people in them. They tell a story without really letting us know what the individuals actually looked like. And sometimes the documents that provide the biggest piece of genealogical information don&#8217;t always make any blunt, in-your-face, direct statements. A man purchases property in his [&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-11458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458","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=11458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}