{"id":21483,"date":"2024-10-09T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=21483"},"modified":"2024-10-10T05:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T10:14:39","slug":"did-they-really-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/09\/did-they-really-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Did they Really Sign?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/signatures-of-lawyer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/signatures-of-lawyer-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/signatures-of-lawyer-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/signatures-of-lawyer-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/signatures-of-lawyer-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/signatures-of-lawyer.jpg 1112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A 1914 petition in an Illinois court case appears to have been signed by the three complainants in the case and their solicitor. The four signatures look similar. It&#8217;s because they likely were written by the same person (probably the attorney). The &#8220;By&#8221; in front of the solicitor&#8217;s signature suggests that it was signed by him for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The signature for Heipke Dirks on the 1914 petition does not appear to match her known signature from an April 1913 document in her husband&#8217;s probate file. I&#8217;ll need to see if I can find signatures of the other two and make comparisons as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1254\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/heipke-dirks-1913.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/heipke-dirks-1913.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/heipke-dirks-1913-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/heipke-dirks-1913-1024x380.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/heipke-dirks-1913-768x285.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1254px) 100vw, 1254px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What you think is your ancestor&#8217;s signature may not be. Think about the record, its creation, and other contextual clues in determining whether you&#8217;ve got your ancestor&#8217;s actual signature or just a script version of their name. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1914 petition in an Illinois court case appears to have been signed by the three complainants in the case and their solicitor. The four signatures look similar. It&#8217;s because they likely were written by the same person (probably the attorney). The &#8220;By&#8221; in front of the solicitor&#8217;s signature suggests that it was signed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"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-21483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}