{"id":14519,"date":"2021-12-27T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T03:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14519"},"modified":"2021-12-27T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T03:01:03","slug":"typos-are-just-typos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/27\/typos-are-just-typos\/","title":{"rendered":"Typos are Just Typos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been searching local newspapers in Hancock County, Illinois, where I grew up and where most of my family has lived for generations&#8211;using telephone numbers to find classified ads placed by my parents and grandparents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found the typical fare: eggs for sale, straw for sale (on the rack and bale your own), bulls for sale, etc. But I found several references to my parents phone number that I knew were errors including one for a Kiwanis breakfast and for inquiries on a home for sale. The references to my parents&#8217; phone numbers in these cases were simply errors where likely two digits were switched (a transposition error) or a digit was keyed incorrectly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I get suggestions that these were actually references to my parents and that I&#8217;m in error, neither of them were members of the Kiwanis Club and they didn&#8217;t speculate in local residential rental property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes a typo is just that: a typo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been searching local newspapers in Hancock County, Illinois, where I grew up and where most of my family has lived for generations&#8211;using telephone numbers to find classified ads placed by my parents and grandparents. I found the typical fare: eggs for sale, straw for sale (on the rack and bale your own), bulls for [&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-14519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519","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=14519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}