{"id":4542,"date":"2016-03-19T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2016-03-19T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T18:45:53","slug":"spellings-clue-to-sayings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/spellings-clue-to-sayings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spellings Clue to &#8220;Sayings?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the &#8220;alternate&#8221; spelling of your ancestor&#8217;s name a clue to how it was pronounced? Sometimes wrong spellings are simply wrong. Other times an incorrect spelling can be a clue to how the name was pronounced by your ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>The flip side of this is that if you know how your ancestor likely said his name, you can think of additional alternate spellings.<\/p>\n<p>There may be a reason DeMoss was spelled Demoise.<\/p>\n<p>Or was it Demorse?<\/p>\n<p>Either are clues.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/john-demoss-names.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4543\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4543\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/john-demoss-names.jpg\" alt=\"john-demoss-names\" width=\"717\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/john-demoss-names.jpg 717w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/john-demoss-names-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/john-demoss-names-624x435.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the &#8220;alternate&#8221; spelling of your ancestor&#8217;s name a clue to how it was pronounced? Sometimes wrong spellings are simply wrong. Other times an incorrect spelling can be a clue to how the name was pronounced by your ancestor. The flip side of this is that if you know how your ancestor likely said his [&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-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","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=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}