{"id":17139,"date":"2023-10-02T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17139"},"modified":"2023-10-04T11:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:05:42","slug":"no-first-name-in-the-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/no-first-name-in-the-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"No First Name in the Newspaper?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When searching newspapers&#8211;particularly when those searches are of digital images of newspapers&#8211;remember that it is possible for someone to be mentioned without ever mentioning their first name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rampley-south-dakota.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rampley-south-dakota.jpg 656w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rampley-south-dakota-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1912 reference in a Canton, South Dakota, newspaper mentions Louis and Mary Rampley&#8211;twice each&#8211;but only refers to them as Mr. and Mrs. Rampley. It&#8217;s possible that the writer did not know their first names at all, but using a first name as a search term will not locate this reference if a search of newspaper images is done digitally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last name of Mrs. Rampley&#8217;s father is spelled Neal instead of Neill. That&#8217;s another name that will not be in the search results if &#8220;Neill&#8221; is used as a search term. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When searching newspapers&#8211;particularly when those searches are of digital images of newspapers&#8211;remember that it is possible for someone to be mentioned without ever mentioning their first name. The 1912 reference in a Canton, South Dakota, newspaper mentions Louis and Mary Rampley&#8211;twice each&#8211;but only refers to them as Mr. and Mrs. Rampley. It&#8217;s possible that the [&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-17139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139","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=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}