{"id":2298,"date":"2010-10-09T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/09\/how-was-that-first-name-said"},"modified":"2010-10-09T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T11:30:00","slug":"how-was-that-first-name-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/09\/how-was-that-first-name-said\/","title":{"rendered":"How was that first name said?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on Aunt Emma for the next issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casefileclues.com\/\">Casefile Clues<\/a><\/em>. In searching for her in various census records, I have become convinced she pronounced her first name as &#8220;Emmer.&#8221; At least that&#8217;s how almost every census taker spelled it, Emmar, Emmer, Emer, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Think about how the first name was said. Sometime English language names were said in ways that resulted in a wide variety of spellings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on Aunt Emma for the next issue of Casefile Clues. In searching for her in various census records, I have become convinced she pronounced her first name as &#8220;Emmer.&#8221; At least that&#8217;s how almost every census taker spelled it, Emmar, Emmer, Emer, etc. Think about how the first name was said. Sometime [&hellip;]<\/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-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}