{"id":31122,"date":"2025-12-23T05:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=31122"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:56:32","slug":"marks-and-double-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/marks-and-double-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks and Double Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1024x365.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-1024x365.png 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-768x274.png 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png 1121w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The will of Peter Rucker from the Orange County, Virginia, record book appears to contain his mark\u2013an apparent \u201cR\u201d instead of an \u201cX.\u201d The \u201cR\u201d serves to remind us that all marks are not the letter \u201cx\u201d and that what is in a record copy is usually the clerk\u2019s transcription and not the actual record or signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rucker\u2019s will is dated January 1742\/3. This was during that time when the start of the new year was somewhat in flux and generally still considered to be in March. January of 1742 would have been the old style and January of 1743 would have been the new style\u2013which we use today. Under the old style, December of 1742 would have been followed by January of 1742, February of 1742 and then March of 1742 until the 25th of March which was actually the start of the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The double dating was to reduce confusion at the time, but it has served to confuse genealogists ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The will of Peter Rucker from the Orange County, Virginia, record book appears to contain his mark\u2013an apparent \u201cR\u201d instead of an \u201cX.\u201d The \u201cR\u201d serves to remind us that all marks are not the letter \u201cx\u201d and that what is in a record copy is usually the clerk\u2019s transcription and not the actual record [&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-31122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122","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=31122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}