{"id":30001,"date":"2025-10-01T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30001"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:19:45","slug":"dating-clue-in-a-cake-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/dating-clue-in-a-cake-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating Clue in a Cake Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There was an envelope of pictures my mother had that were entirely undated. But there was a clue: a picture of a child (cropped from the illustration used for this post) and their birthday cake. Using the age given on the cake and the child’s year of birth, the photos could at least be dated to a year. Mom took quite a few photographs and there seemed little chance that the ones in the envelope were taken in separate years. They were in an envelope with their negatives which made it clear they were all taken on the same roll of film. It would have been easy to overlook the age on the cake–one needs to pay attention to every detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What context clue could you be overlooking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was an envelope of pictures my mother had that were entirely undated. But there was a clue: a picture of a child (cropped from the illustration used for this post) and their birthday cake. Using the age given on the cake and the child’s year of birth, the photos could at least be dated […]<\/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-30001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30001","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=30001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}