{"id":5527,"date":"2016-09-27T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2016-09-27T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:31:29","slug":"did-they-actually-sign-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/did-they-actually-sign-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Did They Actually Sign It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record books that have copies of deeds, wills, and other records are not the only times you may encounter a document not actually signed by a relative. This 1880-era affidavit in a land claim from Nebraska contains the &#8220;signature&#8221; of the claimant, but it&#8217;s actually her lawyer writing the name. The word &#8220;by&#8221; is a big clue, combined with the consistent style of handwriting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/signedit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5528\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/signedit.jpg\" alt=\"signedit\" width=\"800\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/signedit.jpg 800w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/signedit-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/signedit-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/signedit-624x507.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record books that have copies of deeds, wills, and other records are not the only times you may encounter a document not actually signed by a relative. This 1880-era affidavit in a land claim from Nebraska contains the &#8220;signature&#8221; of the claimant, but it&#8217;s actually her lawyer writing the name. The word &#8220;by&#8221; is 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-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","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=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}