{"id":13488,"date":"2021-05-19T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13488"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:46:50","slug":"initials-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/initials-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Initials Only?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your relative may have used their initials instead of their full name because they didn&#8217;t like their actual name, wanted to distinguish themselves from another relative of the same name, or possibly some other reason. This 1950-era picture of my Grandpa Neill&#8217;s pickup and my Dad indicate that Grandpa had &#8220;C. R. Neill&#8221; as his name on the truck. That could have been simply because it was cheaper to have painted or took less room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have seen a few other references to him by his initials, but there are also numerous references to him that include his first name of Cecil as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cecil-neill-initials-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cecil-neill-initials-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cecil-neill-initials-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cecil-neill-initials-1-768x482.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your relative may have used their initials instead of their full name because they didn&#8217;t like their actual name, wanted to distinguish themselves from another relative of the same name, or possibly some other reason. This 1950-era picture of my Grandpa Neill&#8217;s pickup and my Dad indicate that Grandpa had &#8220;C. R. Neill&#8221; as his [&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-13488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488","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=13488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}