{"id":3519,"date":"2015-09-04T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2015-09-05T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T01:07:40","slug":"middle-and-last-names-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/04\/middle-and-last-names-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle and Last Names Confused?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your ancestor&#8217;s &#8220;middle&#8221; name was a common last name, is it possible that the middle name got used by a records clerk as a last name. My Hinrich Jacobs Fecht uses the last name of Fecht on every record in the United States&#8211;except the 1870 census where he is Henry Jacobs. Jurgen Ehmen Tonjes occasionally is referred to as Jurgen Ehmen.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Rucker Tinsley could easily be listed in one record or more as Isaac Rucker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your ancestor&#8217;s &#8220;middle&#8221; name was a common last name, is it possible that the middle name got used by a records clerk as a last name. My Hinrich Jacobs Fecht uses the last name of Fecht on every record in the United States&#8211;except the 1870 census where he is Henry Jacobs. Jurgen Ehmen Tonjes [&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-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","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=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}