{"id":20847,"date":"2024-08-14T22:20:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T03:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20847"},"modified":"2024-08-14T22:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T03:20:05","slug":"are-they-mixing-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/are-they-mixing-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Are They Mixing Script?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Years ago, I was using 19th century congregational records of a Lutheran church in Illinois. Most members of the church were natives of Germany as was the pastor who wrote the records I was using. I was having difficulty reading the records until I realized that he was writing in English script for most of the record, but that he was slipping in a Germanic script for names, places of birth, and the occasional random word. The records were in English, but the non-English script made transcription an occasional problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I was using 19th century congregational records of a Lutheran church in Illinois. Most members of the church were natives of Germany as was the pastor who wrote the records I was using. I was having difficulty reading the records until I realized that he was writing in English script for most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"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-20847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20847","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}