{"id":4606,"date":"2016-04-03T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T20:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2016-04-03T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T20:12:17","slug":"initials-only-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/03\/initials-only-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Initials Only Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/initials.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4607\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4607 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/initials.jpg\" alt=\"initials\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/initials.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/initials-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Last names are not the only thing that can get written in a way\u00a0on a record that makes the person difficult to find. First names can be\u00a0abbreviated or shortened to just initials. If those initials are hard to read, the &#8220;first name&#8221; may be really off from what you think it is. Sometimes it pays to search only based on last name if practical.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget about our 50000 fan celebration&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/Please register for Determining Your Own Migration Trails on Apr 3, 2016 5:00 PM CDT at: https:\/\/attendee.gotowebinar.com\/register\/86438480303728131 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Brought to you by GoToWebinar\u00ae Webinars Made Easy\u00ae\">50% off any sized webinar download order<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last names are not the only thing that can get written in a way\u00a0on a record that makes the person difficult to find. First names can be\u00a0abbreviated or shortened to just initials. If those initials are hard to read, the &#8220;first name&#8221; may be really off from what you think it is. Sometimes it pays [&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-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","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=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}