{"id":2293,"date":"2010-10-13T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/13\/spelling-a-clue-to-pronunciation"},"modified":"2010-10-13T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T10:15:00","slug":"spelling-a-clue-to-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/13\/spelling-a-clue-to-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling a Clue to Pronunciation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the spelling of your ancestor’s name in a census or other record a clue as to how your relatives said your ancestor’s name?<\/p>\n

Elecksander was probably Alexander, said so as to be spelled another way.<\/p>\n

Cathren in a census was probably Catherine, but probably pronounced “cath rin” as opposed to “Cath er in.” <\/p>\n

Spelling might hide more clues than you think.<\/p>\n

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Is the spelling of your ancestor’s name in a census or other record a clue as to how your relatives said your ancestor’s name? Elecksander was probably Alexander, said so as to be spelled another way. Cathren in a census was probably Catherine, but probably pronounced “cath rin” as opposed to “Cath er in.” Spelling […]<\/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-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","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=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}