{"id":22687,"date":"2024-11-17T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=22687"},"modified":"2024-11-17T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:45:21","slug":"the-wright-of-spelling-rite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/the-wright-of-spelling-rite\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wright of Spelling Rite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There can be much gnashing of teeth about what spelling is \u201ccorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is important to remember that 20th and 21st century concerns over spellings and names matching exactly were not a concern in an earlier time. In some places they were not even a concern in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documents should be transcribed as they are written, even if the name is not spelled \u201cright.\u201d  If a census spells great-grandma\u2019s name as \u201cFany,\u201d that\u2019s how I transcribe the document for my records. Because that is what it said. If my great-grandma\u2019s birth certificate spells her name clearly as \u201cFrancis,\u201d then that is what I transcribe the record as. I don\u2019t change it. If great-grandma herself always signed it as Fannie and that\u2019s what most of her records referred to her as, what she had on her tombstone, and what everyone referred to her as\u2013then that\u2019s how I refer to her when writing about her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t get in a tither when a document writes her name as \u201cFrannie.\u201d I make certain it is her (comparing other details in the document to what I know about her), I transcribe it exactly as it is, make a notation, and move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the rite of transcription, one is right to transcribe \u201cWright\u201d as \u201cRight\u201d if \u201cRight\u201d is how it\u2019s spelled on the record. One of the rites of solid research is to to write, separate from the transcription, our own commentary about the \u201cright\u201d spelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There can be much gnashing of teeth about what spelling is \u201ccorrect.\u201d It is important to remember that 20th and 21st century concerns over spellings and names matching exactly were not a concern in an earlier time. In some places they were not even a concern in the early 20th century. Documents should be transcribed […]<\/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-22687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687","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=22687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}