{"id":22617,"date":"2024-11-13T06:04:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=22617"},"modified":"2024-11-13T06:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:04:16","slug":"was-that-a-middle-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/was-that-a-middle-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Was that a Middle Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/loraine-high-school-1926.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/loraine-high-school-1926-1024x756.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/loraine-high-school-1926-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/loraine-high-school-1926-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/loraine-high-school-1926-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/loraine-high-school-1926.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I looked through the list of graduates from the 1926 class of Loraine (Illinois) High School, I noticed one thing immediately: five of them apparently preferred their middle name over their first name. It was interesting that the middle initial was even used and not omitted entirely but perhaps someone felt that at least some homage needed to be paid to their entire name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that name you have for an ancestor actually a middle name? Are they occasionally lurking in other records under their first name? Sometimes we are fortunate enough to know a person&#8217;s actual first name. Other times we are not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I looked through the list of graduates from the 1926 class of Loraine (Illinois) High School, I noticed one thing immediately: five of them apparently preferred their middle name over their first name. It was interesting that the middle initial was even used and not omitted entirely but perhaps someone felt that at least [&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":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","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=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}