{"id":27261,"date":"2025-07-05T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=27261"},"modified":"2025-07-05T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:09:42","slug":"misleading-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/misleading-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That name on a photograph may be the person for whom it was intended (or who had it) and not a means of identifying who was in the actually in the picture. I&#8217;ve got a photo of my great-grandparents and their oldest son (my grandfather) taken around 1920. The name on the cover of the folder in which the picture was placed is that of my grandfather&#8217;s first cousin. There is nothing else written on the photograph anywhere. I only know who it is because I have a duplicate copy of the photograph another relative had that was identified. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The illustration for this post is the name on the cover of the photograph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fred-tena-ufkes-picture-name-on-it.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fred-tena-ufkes-picture-name-on-it.jpg 819w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fred-tena-ufkes-picture-name-on-it-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fred-tena-ufkes-picture-name-on-it-768x255.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That name on a photograph may be the person for whom it was intended (or who had it) and not a means of identifying who was in the actually in the picture. I&#8217;ve got a photo of my great-grandparents and their oldest son (my grandfather) taken around 1920. The name on the cover of the [&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-27261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261","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=27261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}