{"id":27841,"date":"2025-07-31T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=27841"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:31:32","slug":"names-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/names-reversed\/","title":{"rendered":"Names Reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From a while back&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did the census taker reverse the first and last names? It can happen with anyone, but the possibility increases if the individual\u2019s name is in a foreign language and they are a recently arrived immigrant. This man\u2019s name was Focke Meyer, but he was listed as last name Focke and first name Myer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/reversed-census.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/reversed-census.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/reversed-census.jpg 900w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/reversed-census-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/reversed-census-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/reversed-census-624x277.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a while back&#8230; Did the census taker reverse the first and last names? It can happen with anyone, but the possibility increases if the individual\u2019s name is in a foreign language and they are a recently arrived immigrant. This man\u2019s name was Focke Meyer, but he was listed as last name Focke and first [&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-27841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841","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=27841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}