{"id":30197,"date":"2025-10-11T07:08:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30197"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:41:24","slug":"that-maiden-name-may-be-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/that-maiden-name-may-be-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"That Maiden Name May be Something Else"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A record indicates that a last name is a woman&#8217;s &#8220;maiden name.&#8221; Is it possible that it&#8217;s technically not her last name at birth, but something slightly different? It could be any of the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Last name at birth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Biological father\u2019s last name?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Biological mother\u2019s last name?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Step-father\u2019s last name?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Adoptive parents\u2019 last name?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First husband\u2019s last name?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve moved the start date for our Genealogy Methods Class to 21 Oct\u2013so there\u2019s still time to join us!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/4h6xuJ7\">Details are on our aannouncement page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full-Text searching at FamilySearch got you confused? Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/4mX38Kr\">two-hour presentation is getting rave reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record indicates that a last name is a woman&#8217;s &#8220;maiden name.&#8221; Is it possible that it&#8217;s technically not her last name at birth, but something slightly different? It could be any of the following: \u2022Last name at birth? \u2022Biological father\u2019s last name? \u2022Biological mother\u2019s last name? \u2022Step-father\u2019s last name? \u2022Adoptive parents\u2019 last name? 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":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30197","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=30197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}