{"id":10055,"date":"2019-05-19T21:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T02:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2019-05-19T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T02:16:55","slug":"mrs-husbandfirstname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/19\/mrs-husbandfirstname\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. HusbandFirstName"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Be careful assuming a document is consistent and that every difference means something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"994\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mrs-or-not.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mrs-or-not.jpg 994w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mrs-or-not-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mrs-or-not-768x460.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes differences don&#8217;t mean as much as they usually do. In many newspapers, particularly in the 1950s and before, married women were listed as &#8220;Mrs. HusbandFirstname Husbandlastname.&#8221; Women listed as &#8220;Mrs. Femalefirstname Lastname&#8221; were often widowed or divorced. But there can always be inconsistencies as in this obituary from the 1930s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These three daughters of the deceased were married, their husbands were alive, and they were living with them at the time the obituary was written. Yet one is listed as &#8220;Mrs.&#8221; and the others are not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One might be tempted to think Mrs. Luella Barnett was divorced or widowed. She was not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful assuming a document is consistent and that every difference means something. Sometimes differences don&#8217;t mean as much as they usually do. In many newspapers, particularly in the 1950s and before, married women were listed as &#8220;Mrs. HusbandFirstname Husbandlastname.&#8221; Women listed as &#8220;Mrs. Femalefirstname Lastname&#8221; were often widowed or divorced. But there can always [&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-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055","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=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}