{"id":12233,"date":"2020-09-25T05:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T10:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12233"},"modified":"2020-09-25T05:49:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T10:49:48","slug":"when-you-can-read-part-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/when-you-can-read-part-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Can Read Part of It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If a name is partially legible in a document or record, it can be difficult to find a list of names that &#8220;it could be.&#8221; One way to potentially get a list is to search a database for those known letters using a wildcard search. If a maiden name in a church marriage register looks like Tr[letters]t[letters]n, search for Tr*t*n in databases that contain name from the same general area where the name you are unable to read comes from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using databases on Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, etc. are great ones because if the record set is a large one, you are pulling from a large group of names. When performing searches of this type, search specific databases. If the name is of German origin, focus on databases from that area. If it&#8217;s English, use indexes to English parish records or other English materials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a name is partially legible in a document or record, it can be difficult to find a list of names that &#8220;it could be.&#8221; One way to potentially get a list is to search a database for those known letters using a wildcard search. If a maiden name in a church marriage register looks [&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-12233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233","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=12233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}