{"id":16954,"date":"2023-08-11T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16954"},"modified":"2023-08-11T15:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:21:01","slug":"a-split-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/a-split-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Split Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"796\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/splitname.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/splitname.jpg 796w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/splitname-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/splitname-768x178.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The mother&#8217;s maiden name on this 1960-era death certificate from Iowa is wrong in more way than one. The first name was not the mother&#8217;s first name, but it could possibly a nick name for her of which I am unaware. The last name was a splitting of the mother&#8217;s second married name which was actually Greenstreet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very possible that the informant heard the mother referred to as &#8220;Greenstreet&#8221; and always assumed it was two words&#8211;particularly if they never saw it written down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother&#8217;s maiden name on this 1960-era death certificate from Iowa is wrong in more way than one. The first name was not the mother&#8217;s first name, but it could possibly a nick name for her of which I am unaware. The last name was a splitting of the mother&#8217;s second married name which was [&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-16954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954","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=16954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}