{"id":6954,"date":"2017-07-16T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2017-07-16T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:30:49","slug":"age-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/16\/age-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogists\u00a0can easily develop tunnel vision. Sometimes it serves a good purpose and at other times it can cause us to lose our perspective.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason I always imagine my ancestors as being older than me and if I&#8217;m not careful I tend to see them as having always lived their life as an older person. That&#8217;s a mistaken assumption and one that can at times cause me to make incorrect assumptions about behavior and motivations.<\/p>\n<p>A 25-year old is at a different stage in their life than a 75-year old. It seems obvious, but like many obvious things sometimes we need a reminder. I was reminded myself when looking at a deposition made by my great-grandfather, Charles Neill. I always mentally picture him as older with gray hair&#8211;like he appears in the picture with several of his grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading the affidavit a short time after seeing my daughter&#8217;s fiance&#8211;who is about the age now that Charles was then.\u00a0\u00a0I remembered Charles was not always in his late sixties. There was a day when he was a young man.<\/p>\n<p>We all need to remember that sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6955\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/age-perspective-charles-neill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/age-perspective-charles-neill.jpg 579w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/age-perspective-charles-neill-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogists\u00a0can easily develop tunnel vision. Sometimes it serves a good purpose and at other times it can cause us to lose our perspective. For some reason I always imagine my ancestors as being older than me and if I&#8217;m not careful I tend to see them as having always lived their life as an older [&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-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","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=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}