{"id":16124,"date":"2023-01-02T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16124"},"modified":"2023-01-02T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:54:23","slug":"are-you-certain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/02\/are-you-certain\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Certain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/preserving-the-organization-and-information-of-my-images\/\">going through and scanning my grandparents&#8217; slides<\/a> and identifying the individuals in them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This needs to be done carefully and not hastily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw a picture of my Mom talking to a cousin of my grandmother and made the identification after his name popped into my head. It turned out that the name was wrong. I was right about the family the guy was from but it was not the person I originally thought it was&#8211;it was his brother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparing it to another picture I have of this man&#8211;around the same time fortunately&#8211;confirmed who it was. Slightly longer reflection caused me to remember that my grandparents saw the &#8220;correct name&#8221; cousin more than the cousin whose name initially came to mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a minute before you jump to any conclusion. Think before you attach a name to an image or a photograph. Once an error gets out it can be difficult to pull it back if it has spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going through and scanning my grandparents&#8217; slides and identifying the individuals in them. This needs to be done carefully and not hastily. I saw a picture of my Mom talking to a cousin of my grandmother and made the identification after his name popped into my head. It turned out that the name [&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-16124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124","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=16124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}