{"id":39328,"date":"2026-11-15T06:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=39328"},"modified":"2026-11-15T06:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T12:33:37","slug":"the-identifier-and-the-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/the-identifier-and-the-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Identifier and the Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/trautvetter-picture-identification.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"706\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/trautvetter-picture-identification.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/trautvetter-picture-identification.jpg 706w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/trautvetter-picture-identification-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is best to capture as much information as possible when you can. That&#8217;s what has been done with the reverse of this 1950s-era photograph used to illustrate this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not long after I started my genealogy research, I went through some of my grandma&#8217;s photographs with her and wrote on the back of many of them. The identification was not done by me, but it was my handwriting that appears on the back. I need to track how the identification was made&#8211;so someone later who may see the photo knows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How much credence we give to someone identifying people in a photograph hinges on who the identifier is and their perceived knowledge of the information. My grandmother was the sister, sister-in-law, or aunt of all the adults pictured in the photograph. She would have known who they were. I certainly did not. I could tell who three of the women were, but the other two I did not remember at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tracking the identifier and the writer is always advised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is best to capture as much information as possible when you can. That&#8217;s what has been done with the reverse of this 1950s-era photograph used to illustrate this post. Not long after I started my genealogy research, I went through some of my grandma&#8217;s photographs with her and wrote on the back of many [&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-39328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39328","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=39328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}