{"id":16682,"date":"2023-05-25T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T23:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16682"},"modified":"2023-05-26T18:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T23:40:02","slug":"whose-name-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/whose-name-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Name Matters?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"574\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/johann-georg-trautvetter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/johann-georg-trautvetter.jpg 574w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/johann-georg-trautvetter-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I will be honest. When records are in a foreign language, I scan for names. But when viewing records in a foreign language, make certain to understand the structure of those records. This christening record from 1798 underlines and seems to emphasize the name of the father&#8211;Erasmus Trautvetter&#8211;and not the child&#8211;Johann Georg Trautvetter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other records kept by this pastor in this place during this time period are also structured the same way. There is nothing odd or unusual about this entry&#8211;when compared to others. That&#8217;s one reason that no church record entry should be looked at in isolation. What you think is unusual may not be unusual at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be honest. When records are in a foreign language, I scan for names. But when viewing records in a foreign language, make certain to understand the structure of those records. This christening record from 1798 underlines and seems to emphasize the name of the father&#8211;Erasmus Trautvetter&#8211;and not the child&#8211;Johann Georg Trautvetter. Other records [&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-16682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682","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=16682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}