{"id":14187,"date":"2021-10-20T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14187"},"modified":"2021-10-20T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:15:55","slug":"identify-the-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/20\/identify-the-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify the Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cecil-neill-pigs-identified-as-dad.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cecil-neill-pigs-identified-as-dad.jpg 754w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cecil-neill-pigs-identified-as-dad-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early 1980s when I was in my mid-teens, I wrote identification on the back of many of the photographs my Grandmother Neill had&#8211;including this one of my Grandpa Neill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandma always referred to my Grandpa as &#8220;Dad,&#8221; rarely by his name of Cecil. So when she told me that the picture was &#8220;Dad and Pigs&#8221; that is what I wrote on the back of the photograph. The identification in this case really needs some explanation. The handwriting is clearly not that of my Grandma or her two sons&#8211;the only people who would have called him &#8220;Dad.&#8221; In hindsight I should have written &#8220;Cecil Neill&#8221; on the reverse of the photograph, but for some reason I did not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a reminder that things may not always be what they seem. And explain what you can while you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1980s when I was in my mid-teens, I wrote identification on the back of many of the photographs my Grandmother Neill had&#8211;including this one of my Grandpa Neill. Grandma always referred to my Grandpa as &#8220;Dad,&#8221; rarely by his name of Cecil. So when she told me that the picture was &#8220;Dad [&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-14187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187","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=14187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}