{"id":29749,"date":"2025-09-17T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=29749"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:58:13","slug":"a-last-or-first-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/a-last-or-first-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Last or First Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A death certificate for a relative indicated that the father&#8217;s name was &#8220;Morris.&#8221; Actually it was technically written as &#8220;Morris &#8212;.&#8221; Does that mean that the first name was Morris and not the last name. It might be odd for someone to only know the first name of someone&#8217;s father and not the last name, but if the deceased is a woman who only knew the informant a short time, it is entirely possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last names that can be first names can sometimes create problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upcoming:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/expanded-perplexity-for-genealogy-presentation\/\">Perplexity Expanded Webinar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/full-texting-the-smiths-and-jones-strategies-for-common-names\/\">Full-Text Searching for the Jones and the Smiths<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A death certificate for a relative indicated that the father&#8217;s name was &#8220;Morris.&#8221; Actually it was technically written as &#8220;Morris &#8212;.&#8221; Does that mean that the first name was Morris and not the last name. It might be odd for someone to only know the first name of someone&#8217;s father and not the last name, [&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":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749","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=29749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}