{"id":13108,"date":"2021-03-04T06:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13108"},"modified":"2021-03-04T06:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T12:27:12","slug":"getting-contemporary-with-abbreviations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/04\/getting-contemporary-with-abbreviations\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Contemporary with Abbreviations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An 1819 document used the abbreviation &#8220;M.T.&#8221; as part of the location in a document. It took me a moment to realize that the reference was to &#8220;Missouri Territory.&#8221; In 1850, such an abbreviation would not be used<br><br>Abbreviations were always used in the context of the time and place. Keep this in mind when interpreting them.<br><br>And remember that using abbreviations in your own work should be avoided precisely to avoid confusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 1819 document used the abbreviation &#8220;M.T.&#8221; as part of the location in a document. It took me a moment to realize that the reference was to &#8220;Missouri Territory.&#8221; In 1850, such an abbreviation would not be used Abbreviations were always used in the context of the time and place. Keep this in mind when [&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-13108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108","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=13108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}