{"id":1401,"date":"2015-11-12T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2015-11-12T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:06:45","slug":"signing-the-same-way-on-the-same-day-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Signing the Same Way On the Same Day&#8230;.or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the confirmation of an identity hinges on the comparison of signatures. That&#8217;s a good analytical tool, but one doesn&#8217;t necessarily want to use different signatures to conclude that two people are different. Even the same person can sign their name in slightly different ways even on the same document.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/edward-neill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1402\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/edward-neill.jpg\" alt=\"edward-neill\" width=\"709\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/edward-neill.jpg 709w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/edward-neill-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEdward Neill signed an accounting in his father&#8217;s estate in April of 1913 for a Hancock County, Illinois, court. While the signatures are very similar, it&#8217;s worth a quick note that there are differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the initial &#8220;E&#8221; is connected to the &#8220;d&#8221; in the first signature, but not the second<\/li>\n<li>the &#8220;w&#8221; in Edward is made differently<\/li>\n<li>the &#8220;e&#8221; in Neill is made differently<\/li>\n<li>the &#8220;i&#8221; in the second Neill is much taller<\/li>\n<li>the last &#8220;l&#8221; in Neill has been made with a slightly different flourish in the second rendering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not to say that different people signed this document or that something suspicious is going on. I have no doubt that the same person signed the document. There&#8217;s a number of reasons why the signatures could look slightly different even if they were made at approximately the same time on the same document.<\/p>\n<p>We will see why in a future post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the confirmation of an identity hinges on the comparison of signatures. That&#8217;s a good analytical tool, but one doesn&#8217;t necessarily want to use different signatures to conclude that two people are different. Even the same person can sign their name in slightly different ways even on the same document. &nbsp; Edward Neill signed an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,152],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-edward-neill","tag-handwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}