{"id":16233,"date":"2023-01-28T04:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16233"},"modified":"2023-01-28T08:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T14:21:43","slug":"those-dots-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/28\/those-dots-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Dots Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/name-abbreviations-ufkes-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/name-abbreviations-ufkes-783x1024.jpg 783w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/name-abbreviations-ufkes-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/name-abbreviations-ufkes-768x1004.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/name-abbreviations-ufkes.jpg 937w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not a stray mark. It is an intentional dot and it is not the only one on the page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of this writing, in <em>Ancestry.com<\/em>&#8216;s interpretation of 6th name on this image is &#8220;Fred&#8221; <em>sans <\/em>dot. Before I looked at the actual record, I thought it odd that the pastor used the Anglicized diminutive Fred for my great-grandfather while using the low-German name of Trientje for my great-grandmother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/fred-ufkes-no-dot-ancestry-elca-1024x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/fred-ufkes-no-dot-ancestry-elca-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/fred-ufkes-no-dot-ancestry-elca-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/fred-ufkes-no-dot-ancestry-elca-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/fred-ufkes-no-dot-ancestry-elca.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The pastor didn&#8217;t use Fred as the name for my great-grandfather. It was an abbreviation. Looking at other names on the same page made it clear that abbreviating names was a common practice in the baptismal register. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have transcribed it as &#8220;Fred.&#8221;&#8211;with the period&#8211;in my records. Numerous other sources indicate that his actual name was Frederick\/Frederich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reminders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Look at the original record.<\/li><li>Look at other entries in the same <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">get our genealogy tip daily in your email for free, add your address here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>and compare. <\/li><li>Transcribe as written. <\/li><li>Dots matter.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a stray mark. It is an intentional dot and it is not the only one on the page. As of this writing, in Ancestry.com&#8216;s interpretation of 6th name on this image is &#8220;Fred&#8221; sans dot. Before I looked at the actual record, I thought it odd that the pastor used the Anglicized diminutive [&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-16233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233","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=16233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}