{"id":18049,"date":"2024-04-16T21:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T02:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=18049"},"modified":"2024-04-16T21:26:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T02:26:55","slug":"spelling-irregularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/spelling-irregularities\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Irregularities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From a while back&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Variations in how your ancestor\u2019s name was spelled can be endlessly frustrating. However, it\u2019s worth remembering that a variation of how your ancestor\u2019s name appears in an index can arise from a variety of situations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your ancestor did not know how to spell his name<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your ancestor could not read<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your ancestor did not speak clearly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your ancestor had an accent with which the writer of his name was unfamiliar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The clerk didn\u2019t care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The clerk had bad writing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The transcriber could not read the name<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The transcriber did not care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The transcriber made a typographical error<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The document has faded over time and is difficult to read<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or something else<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that one of more of these could explain why James Rampley ends up indexed as Jarvis Pample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a while back&#8230; Variations in how your ancestor\u2019s name was spelled can be endlessly frustrating. However, it\u2019s worth remembering that a variation of how your ancestor\u2019s name appears in an index can arise from a variety of situations: Keep in mind that one of more of these could explain why James Rampley ends up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18049","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=18049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}