{"id":13106,"date":"2021-03-03T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13106"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:47:53","slug":"a-johann-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/03\/a-johann-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Johann By Any Other Name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember that your ancestor might have been known by several different first names. This can be especially confusing when a researcher is &#8220;fixed&#8221; on one name. My great-grandfather was actually Frederick, but sometimes he was Fred and sometimes he was Fritz (the latter more in his younger years).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another ancestor was John Michael Trautvetter. He went by one of several different names:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>John<\/li><li>Michael<\/li><li>Mike<\/li><li>Jahn (a German version of his first name)<\/li><li>J. M.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some nicknames are not quite as obvious. Sally was a common nickname for Sarah. If you can&#8217;t find your ancestor, learn nicknames that were derived from the original name. The ancestor might simply be hiding under a nickname.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that your ancestor might have been known by several different first names. This can be especially confusing when a researcher is &#8220;fixed&#8221; on one name. My great-grandfather was actually Frederick, but sometimes he was Fred and sometimes he was Fritz (the latter more in his younger years). Another ancestor was John Michael Trautvetter. He [&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-13106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106","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=13106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}