{"id":13429,"date":"2021-05-10T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:13:17","slug":"ask-the-in-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/10\/ask-the-in-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the In-laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not their family.&#8221; &#8220;They weren&#8217;t married into the family then, they won&#8217;t know anything about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reaching out to biological relatives is an important part of getting family traditions, identifying old photographs, and determing if there is any family ephemera floating around in someone&#8217;s home. But do not limit yourself to the biological family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was having difficulty identifying a photograph recently and I posted it to my Facebook wall. A niece of the individual by marriage identified the photograph. I hadn&#8217;t thought to ask her at all as the picture was taken thirty-five years before the niece was born. But then I realized a few things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The niece had seen the person for twenty-five more years than I had.<\/li><li>The niece had seen the person when the person was younger&#8211;and sometimes that really helps.<\/li><li>The niece had pictures of this individual dating back to when she married into the family&#8211;seeing those pictures helps. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not limit yourself to biological relatives in your search for the identification of photographs or other family history information. Someone outside the biologicals may help more than you think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day\u2013book 2\u2013is coming\u2013stay tuned! Get our first&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">&nbsp;book today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not their family.&#8221; &#8220;They weren&#8217;t married into the family then, they won&#8217;t know anything about that.&#8221; Reaching out to biological relatives is an important part of getting family traditions, identifying old photographs, and determing if there is any family ephemera floating around in someone&#8217;s home. But do not limit yourself to the biological family. [&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-13429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429","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=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}