{"id":25745,"date":"2025-05-30T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25745"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:01:35","slug":"grabbing-a-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/grabbing-a-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Grabbing a George"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can’t just grab any George and assume he’s your George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I <\/a>almost did that for a quick minute with the George in the picture on the left. The Curious George I had as a kid my Mom kept and it was among her things when we cleaned out the house. I have quite a few things from my parents and when I’m going through pictures I’m always on the look out for something I still have in a picture from years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not to be with George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a genealogy reminder here about jumping to conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little reminder about what can change over time. The eyes on the George on the right fell off decades ago and Mom replaced them with buttons. The eyes didn’t prove I had the wrong George. It’s even possible that mine had a red shirt that he had lost along the way (his hat is attached).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the feet were the kicker that made it obvious. These are not the same George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have your George in records 50 years apart think about what would be the same about George and what might have changed over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you have items today that you have pictures of from years ago, consider creating a composite of the two images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can’t just grab any George and assume he’s your George. I almost did that for a quick minute with the George in the picture on the left. The Curious George I had as a kid my Mom kept and it was among her things when we cleaned out the house. I have quite a […]<\/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-25745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745","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=25745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}