{"id":4515,"date":"2016-03-13T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:08:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T21:08:05","slug":"it-looks-like-my-ancestor-wrote-his-deed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/13\/it-looks-like-my-ancestor-wrote-his-deed\/","title":{"rendered":"It Looks Like My Ancestor Wrote His Deed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record copies of deeds and wills at the local courthouse infrequently contain a &#8220;replica&#8221; of your signer&#8217;s signature. What you see is simply the clerk&#8217;s transcription of the document and of the signature. If your ancestor made a mark that was different from an &#8220;X,&#8221; the clerk may have tried to replicate that, but a signature that appears to match the script of the document most likely means that you are looking at a record copy of the document and not your ancestor&#8217;s actual signature. It is rare to have an ancestor actually write out his own documents.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/signatures.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4516\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4516\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/signatures.jpg\" alt=\"signatures\" width=\"525\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/signatures.jpg 525w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/signatures-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record copies of deeds and wills at the local courthouse infrequently contain a &#8220;replica&#8221; of your signer&#8217;s signature. What you see is simply the clerk&#8217;s transcription of the document and of the signature. If your ancestor made a mark that was different from an &#8220;X,&#8221; the clerk may have tried to replicate that, but a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","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\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}