{"id":31220,"date":"2026-01-03T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=31220"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:23:44","slug":"the-probable-error-that-didnt-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/the-probable-error-that-didnt-click\/","title":{"rendered":"The Probable Error that Didn&#8217;t Click"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An obituary indicated that a pallbearer for a relative was Earl Trautvetter.&nbsp; The other pallbearers were individuals whose names I recognized as being nephews or nephews-in-law of the deceased. Then it dawned on me\u2013the obituary was likely referring to my uncle that I always knew as \u201cBabe.\u201d His real name, which I knew but occasionally put in the back of my mind, was actually Carl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earl was likely the result of someone misreading the initial \u201cC\u201d in his first name as an \u201cE\u201d or some other sort of typographical error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An additional difficulty with this error was that the incorrect name was one that I heard differently. It didn\u2019t sound like Carl and so it took me a little bit longer to realize what had likely happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes things are simply mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also helped that there was no relative with the first name of Earl during the time period in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obituary indicated that a pallbearer for a relative was Earl Trautvetter.&nbsp; The other pallbearers were individuals whose names I recognized as being nephews or nephews-in-law of the deceased. Then it dawned on me\u2013the obituary was likely referring to my uncle that I always knew as \u201cBabe.\u201d His real name, which I knew but occasionally [&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-31220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31220","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=31220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}