{"id":4801,"date":"2016-05-08T08:52:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2016-05-07T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T00:00:34","slug":"dying-to-use-my-own-dialect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/08\/dying-to-use-my-own-dialect\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying to Use My Own Dialect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name in this 1880 census enumeration does not look like Henry Herzog, but that&#8217;s what it is. This entry from Hancock County, Illinois&#8217; Walker Township (family 193, dwelling 195) \u00a0looks like Henry something or other.<\/p>\n<p>The census taker was a German native and wrote in a handwriting that was difficult to read. It is very possible that he wrote &#8220;Herzog&#8221; the way it sounded to him. Henry Herzog was a German as well, but if he and the census enumerator were from different areas and spoke differing dialects the rendering of the last name could be very creative.<\/p>\n<p>Always consider how your ancestor said his name.<\/p>\n<p>Always consider how the keeper of the record heard the name and what biases he may have had.<\/p>\n<p>Always consider sloppy handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Because sometimes all three are playing a role.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/henry-herzog1880.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4802\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4802\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/henry-herzog1880.jpg\" alt=\"henry-herzog1880\" width=\"523\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/henry-herzog1880.jpg 523w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/henry-herzog1880-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name in this 1880 census enumeration does not look like Henry Herzog, but that&#8217;s what it is. This entry from Hancock County, Illinois&#8217; Walker Township (family 193, dwelling 195) \u00a0looks like Henry something or other. The census taker was a German native and wrote in a handwriting that was difficult to read. It is [&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-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","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=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}