{"id":17524,"date":"2024-01-14T18:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17524"},"modified":"2024-01-14T18:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T00:50:02","slug":"lessons-from-buddy-neil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/14\/lessons-from-buddy-neil\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From Buddy Neil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two babies one the award for “most recent baby” at the 1941 reunion of the fourth annual Trautvetter-Schlidmann reunion held in Hamilton, Illinois: Wayne Wells and Buddy Neil. Wayne Wells was determined to have been a Schildmann descendant. I already suspected who Buddy Neil was, but avoided jumping to conclusions. The only “Neil” family listed in the entire listing of attendees as “Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Neil[sic<\/em>] and family.” Mrs. Neill was a Trautvetter descendant. It was consistent with the other double prizes that were apparently awarded one to a member of each family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Neill–actually Cecil Neill and the former Ida Trautvetter–did have a baby in April of 1941: Keith Neill. Keith is my father. I have never heard of him referred to as “Buddy” in my entire life. I thought the reference might be to “Baby,” but Dad’s birth certificate from April of 1941 indicated he was clearly named at birth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking it was a typographical error at the newspaper, I located another version of the writeup in another local newspaper from Warsaw, Illinois. That newspaper, also dated on 25 September 1941, included the same reference to Buddy Neil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reference does appear to have been to my father and does not appear to have been a mistake of the newspaper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was he called Buddy for a short time or was it a mistake made by the compiler of the newspaper? At this point, I won’t know. But at least I made the effort to figure it out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two babies one the award for “most recent baby” at the 1941 reunion of the fourth annual Trautvetter-Schlidmann reunion held in Hamilton, Illinois: Wayne Wells and Buddy Neil. Wayne Wells was determined to have been a Schildmann descendant. I already suspected who Buddy Neil was, but avoided jumping to conclusions. The only “Neil” family listed […]<\/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-17524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524","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=17524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}