{"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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had assumed for years that Fairy&#8217;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&#8217;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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many others of their generation, born to parents (or at least a parent) who spoke a low-German dialect referred to as &#8220;Platt,&#8221; had names that were later  replaced with English sounding nicknames, diminutives, or crude Anglicizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that was not the case with Fairy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"926\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-1.png 926w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-1-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-1-768x173.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her 1897 birth certificate clearly indicated Fairy was her actual name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;s baptismal record in a nearby German-speaking church also indicated Fairy was her name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","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}]}}