{"id":32463,"date":"2026-03-17T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32463"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:31:59","slug":"is-that-a-relative-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/is-that-a-relative-even\/","title":{"rendered":"Is That A Relative Even?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The picture discussed in this post is not included because the other two individuals are living.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a picture of me in a suit taken in the early 1970s. I look to be approximately four-years old. When it was taken was a mystery. There\u2019s a little girl, also dressed up and also about my age, standing next to me. I have no female first cousins, so that\u2019s not who the person is. I did not recognize the person and she didn\u2019t appear to be any female relative I could think of based on her age, hair color, and general face shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s not a relative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As soon as I looked in the background of the picture and saw the woman sitting in the background in a church pew, I knew when the picture was taken. It was at the wedding of my Dad\u2019s cousin and I was a ring bearer or something or other and I wasn\u2019t excited about the girl my age I had to walk down the aisle with because I did not know her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out she wasn\u2019t a relative of mine at all and must have been a relative of the cousin on the other side of her family or of the groom. I have no second cousins on that side of the family who are that close in age to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be a time where your relative appears in a document, record, or picture with someone and that person\u2019s connection to you is more distant than you think. Don\u2019t assume the relationship is close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here and it\u2019s not written to help you research your \u201cfamous ancestors.\u201d It\u2019s written to help with all of them.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture discussed in this post is not included because the other two individuals are living. There\u2019s a picture of me in a suit taken in the early 1970s. I look to be approximately four-years old. When it was taken was a mystery. There\u2019s a little girl, also dressed up and also about my age, [&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-32463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32463","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=32463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}