{"id":1580,"date":"2012-05-14T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/14\/was-necessity-the-mother-of-that-spelling"},"modified":"2012-05-14T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T11:32:00","slug":"was-necessity-the-mother-of-that-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/14\/was-necessity-the-mother-of-that-spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Necessity the Mother of that Spelling?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it possible that your ancestor’s name was spelled in a different way on a document, record, or tombstone because there wasn’t room for the “right” spelling?<\/p>\n

That’s a potential problem and might be the reason “Rebeca” appears on this stone instead of “Rebecca.<\/a>“<\/p>\n

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Is it possible that your ancestor’s name was spelled in a different way on a document, record, or tombstone because there wasn’t room for the “right” spelling? That’s a potential problem and might be the reason “Rebeca” appears on this stone instead of “Rebecca.“ ———————————— Check out GenealogyBank’s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/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-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}