{"id":3422,"date":"2013-03-22T20:14:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T01:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2015-08-16T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:15:00","slug":"was-there-an-unknown-first-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/was-there-an-unknown-first-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Was There an Unknown First Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My German born ancestor was George Trautvetter&#8211;born in the 1790s. He had brothers Adam, Michael. and Henry. I was years into researching the family before I learned that at least two of them really had the first name of John or Johann&#8211;using that first name combined with the middle name made finding them easier. They dropped the &#8220;first name&#8221; after a while in the United States, but used it on passenger lists and records early in their settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Is your ancestor hiding under an &#8220;unknown&#8221; first name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My German born ancestor was George Trautvetter&#8211;born in the 1790s. He had brothers Adam, Michael. and Henry. I was years into researching the family before I learned that at least two of them really had the first name of John or Johann&#8211;using that first name combined with the middle name made finding them easier. They [&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-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","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=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}