{"id":3426,"date":"2015-08-17T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2015-08-16T23:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T04:47:58","slug":"ocr-may-merge-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/17\/ocr-may-merge-names\/","title":{"rendered":"OCR May Merge Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A search of the yearbooks on\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> located a reference to an individual named &#8220;Newport Ufkes&#8221; in a University of Iowa yearbook in 1950. The name Ufkes is highly unusual and I was 99% certain the reference to my uncle who attended the University of Iowa Law School.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the men in a picture were listed by last name only. My uncle stood next a man with the last name of Newport. Seeing &#8220;Ufkes, Newport&#8221; the automatic indexing assumed it was a person whose name was Newport Ufkes.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason to not always include first names in searches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A search of the yearbooks on\u00a0Ancestry.com located a reference to an individual named &#8220;Newport Ufkes&#8221; in a University of Iowa yearbook in 1950. The name Ufkes is highly unusual and I was 99% certain the reference to my uncle who attended the University of Iowa Law School. Turns out the men in a picture were [&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-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","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=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}