{"id":15006,"date":"2022-04-05T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15006"},"modified":"2022-04-05T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:42:50","slug":"the-name-is-not-a-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/the-name-is-not-a-fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Name is not a Fairy Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My great-grandmother had a first cousin whose name was Fairy, but I never really believed that was her actual name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had assumed for years that Fairy’s first name was not actually Fairy at all, but instead was Frauke, Folke, Feeke, or some other low-German name and that she had simply used Fairy as an alternative. My own great-grandmother’s actual name was Trientje, but I never heard her referred to as anything other than Tena and Tena was what she used on every record from her marriage going forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many others of their generation, born to parents (or at least a parent) who spoke a low-German dialect referred to as “Platt,” had names that were later replaced with English sounding nicknames, diminutives, or crude Anglicizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that was not the case with Fairy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her 1897 birth certificate clearly indicated Fairy was her actual name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assumed and I should not have. Even when assumptions are reasonable, it does not mean that they are necessarily valid. Obtain actual records if possible. Fairy’s baptismal record in a nearby German-speaking church also indicated Fairy was her name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much for that theory. Getting actual records has a way of making us see the error of our ways. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My great-grandmother had a first cousin whose name was Fairy, but I never really believed that was her actual name. I had assumed for years that Fairy’s first name was not actually Fairy at all, but instead was Frauke, Folke, Feeke, or some other low-German name and that she had simply used Fairy as an […]<\/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-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006","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=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}