{"id":3820,"date":"2011-12-27T12:32:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:32:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:32:45","slug":"christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/christmas-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a lovely Christmas present I received for our cousin Lisa.\u00a0 Pictures!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/don-and-paul-costello.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3823\" title=\"don and paul costello\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/don-and-paul-costello-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/don-and-paul-costello-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/don-and-paul-costello-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/don-and-paul-costello-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/don-and-paul-costello-132x200.jpg 132w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/don-and-paul-costello.jpg 1304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is Don Costello and his father Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is my husband&#8217;s great uncle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=332\">I&#8217;ve written earlier about the Costello family farm<\/a> and\u00a0 Annie Costello&#8217;s struggles to hold on to it.\u00a0 In that piece I stated that N&#8217;s grandfather John T ran the farm while his mother worked in town to scrape together a living.\u00a0 I should have said that both of Annie&#8217;s sons, Paul and John T,\u00a0 handled the farm operations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be writing more about these brothers for interested Costellos and others.<\/p>\n<p>For now here is John T on the left and Paul on the right.\u00a0 Even in these blurry photos I think the resemblance is strong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/john-T-Costello-greyscale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3825\" title=\"john T Costello greyscale\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/john-T-Costello-greyscale-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/john-T-Costello-greyscale-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/john-T-Costello-greyscale-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/john-T-Costello-greyscale-157x200.jpg 157w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/john-T-Costello-greyscale.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/paul-costello1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3830\" title=\"paul costello\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/paul-costello1-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/paul-costello1-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/paul-costello1-138x150.jpg 138w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/paul-costello1-184x200.jpg 184w, https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/paul-costello1.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a lovely Christmas present I received for our cousin Lisa.\u00a0 Pictures! &nbsp; This is Don Costello and his father Paul. Paul is my husband&#8217;s great uncle. I&#8217;ve written earlier about the Costello family farm and\u00a0 Annie Costello&#8217;s struggles &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/christmas-present\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Present<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}