{"id":3948,"date":"2015-12-08T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2015-12-08T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T20:16:41","slug":"i-cant-find-the-heifer-or-the-effer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/08\/i-cant-find-the-heifer-or-the-effer\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Find the Heifer or the Effer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This early 18th century estate settlement spells the word &#8220;heifer&#8221; as &#8220;effer&#8221; and it makes a good point about initial letters.<\/p>\n<p>There are letters that sometimes simply get dropped when a name is written. The problem is compounded when the dropped letter is the very first one.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hoffman becomes Aufman or Offman<\/li>\n<li>Knight becomes Night<\/li>\n<li>Habben becomes Abben<\/li>\n<li>and so it goes&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The heifer does not care whether it is called a heifer or an effer. Your ancestor may not have cared that his last name was written as Aufman instead of Hoffman. But you will care&#8211;when you can&#8217;t find them.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heifer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3949 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heifer.jpg\" alt=\"heifer\" width=\"517\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heifer.jpg 517w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/heifer-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This early 18th century estate settlement spells the word &#8220;heifer&#8221; as &#8220;effer&#8221; and it makes a good point about initial letters. There are letters that sometimes simply get dropped when a name is written. The problem is compounded when the dropped letter is the very first one. Hoffman becomes Aufman or Offman Knight becomes Night [&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-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","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=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}