{"id":30092,"date":"2025-10-06T07:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30092"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:15:32","slug":"no-face-and-unstated-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/no-face-and-unstated-details\/","title":{"rendered":"No Face and Unstated Details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s picture of my grandmother with one of her great-grandchildren on her lap taken at Thanksgiving. You can’t see either of their faces, but it’s clear that Grandma is feeding her something to eat. Sometimes the best pictures don\u2019t always show the faces of the people in them. They tell a story without really letting us know what the individuals actually looked like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And sometimes the documents that provide the biggest piece of genealogical information don\u2019t always make any blunt, in-your-face, direct statements. A man purchases property in his own name in 1821, suggesting he was born by at least 1800. A man sells property in Massachusetts in 1780 and buried in the metes and bounds legal description is a reference to his mother (without stating her relationship), along with her new married name. An estate inventory in Illinois references income from a mortgage in Kentucky and researching that mortgage leads to major discoveries on the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never overlook a reference because \u201cit doesn\u2019t show me what I want to know.\u201d There may be an even bigger clue hiding\u2013if you only look for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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