There\u2019s a 1940s era picture of my great-uncle\u2019s car that I have in my possession. I only know it is his car because someone wrote \u201cHerschel Neill\u2019s car\u201d on the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The person who wrote it was my Mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I doubt if she ever saw the car. The uncle was not her uncle. It was my Dad\u2019s uncle. I can\u2019t ask her how she knew because she\u2019s passed away. I can\u2019t ask my Dad. I can\u2019t ask my Dad\u2019s uncle. The picture was in an album of pictures from my Dad\u2019s family. I\u2019m surmising that Mom bought the album after Grandma died and put the pictures in it and that someone else told her what the picture was of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The point is that her knowledge was not first hand. Someone likely told her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when you use information someone provided on the back of a photograph or in an official record, ask yourself\u2013how did they likely come to know that information?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s a 1940s era picture of my great-uncle\u2019s car that I have in my possession. I only know it is his car because someone wrote \u201cHerschel Neill\u2019s car\u201d on the back. The person who wrote it was my Mother. I doubt if she ever saw the car. The uncle was not her uncle. It was […]<\/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":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747","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=17747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}