{"id":2926,"date":"2008-12-30T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/30\/a-rose-by-any-other-name"},"modified":"2008-12-30T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T20:03:00","slug":"a-rose-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/30\/a-rose-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rose by any other Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that your ancestor might have been known by several different first names.  This can be especially confusing when a researcher is &#8220;fixed&#8221; on one name. My great-grandfather was actually Frederick, but sometimes he was Fred and sometimes he was Fritz (the latter more in his younger years).<\/p>\n<p>Another ancestor was John Michael Trautvetter. He went by one of several different names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John<\/li>\n<li>Michael<\/li>\n<li>Mike<\/li>\n<li>Jahn (a German version of his first name)<\/li>\n<li>J. M.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some nicknames are not quite as obvious. Sally was a common nickname for Sarah. If you can&#8217;t find your ancestor, learn nicknames that were derived from the original name. The ancestor might simply be hiding under a nickname. <\/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>Remember that your ancestor might have been known by several different first names. This can be especially confusing when a researcher is &#8220;fixed&#8221; on one name. My great-grandfather was actually Frederick, but sometimes he was Fred and sometimes he was Fritz (the latter more in his younger years). Another ancestor was John Michael Trautvetter. He [&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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","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=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}