{"id":36894,"date":"2026-09-16T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=36894"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:36:24","slug":"save-the-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/save-the-handwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have a sample of a relative\u2019s known handwriting, do you save an image of it along with records and documents? Years later, someone may be glad you saved that sample. Census records and other materials are easy to find elsewhere (usually), but unique items such as handwriting samples are not. Consider saving those images along with record images related to your ancestor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This 1829 consent to marry for William A. Thomas was witnessed in 1829 by my ancestor Augusta Newman. I\u2019m reasonably certain he wrote it\u2013so I\u2019m attaching it to my images for him in my genealogical database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NbUk1rQGIpvZKMnK3_fpBPYByCQM0k2QHtkwU67UYbTBAN9kjRTNDegfMF4m0WUyQ30Qzi4NWjxWbqkpt931mOehvBsTVVSB5WGxLQiqeJXgb3Mr67UAthdzhCiXp5ReNYZ2eY=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/augusta-newman.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.1953488372093024;width:944px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a sample of a relative\u2019s known handwriting, do you save an image of it along with records and documents? Years later, someone may be glad you saved that sample. Census records and other materials are easy to find elsewhere (usually), but unique items such as handwriting samples are not. Consider saving those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894","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=36894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}