{"id":3334,"date":"2015-08-09T07:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2015-08-07T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T20:24:09","slug":"slash-that-tombstone-at-the-end-of-its-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/09\/slash-that-tombstone-at-the-end-of-its-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Slash That Tombstone At the End of Its Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formatting transcriptions can be difficult when one wants to follow the original as closely as possible. That&#8217;s espe<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3335 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trautvetter-stone.jpg\" alt=\"trautvetter-stone\" width=\"346\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trautvetter-stone.jpg 346w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trautvetter-stone-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/>cially true with tombstones. One standard indication of the end of a line on a tombstone transcription is to use a slash ( \/ ).<\/p>\n<p>The stone in this post would be transcribed as:<\/p>\n<p>\/ T \/ John M. Trautvetter \/ June 22, 1839-Dec. 13, 1917\/ [line] \/Franciska His Wife \/ July 25, 1851-Jan. 15, 1888 \/ at rest \/<\/p>\n<p>Of course additional information should include the location of the tombstone, nearby tombstones, relative position of the stone within the cemetery, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formatting transcriptions can be difficult when one wants to follow the original as closely as possible. That&#8217;s especially true with tombstones. One standard indication of the end of a line on a tombstone transcription is to use a slash ( \/ ). The stone in this post would be transcribed as: \/ T \/ John [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}