{"id":5442,"date":"2016-09-15T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2016-09-15T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:48:44","slug":"you-may-sound-stilted-but-clarify-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/15\/you-may-sound-stilted-but-clarify-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"You May Sound Stilted, But Clarify Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some of my families, first names are repeated. And repeated. When writing about these individuals, clarification is necessary&#8211;to keep the reader\u00a0<em>and the writer<\/em> from getting confused. Pick a style and stick with it. A few options are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Rampley (born 1803)<\/li>\n<li>James Rampley (son of Thomas)<\/li>\n<li>James Rampley (born 1803, son of Thomas)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In some families the third option might be the best as there could even be repetition of father-son relationships. The key is to be clear. Sometimes when writing the person to whom you are referring is obvious. Sometimes it is not.<\/p>\n<p>Clarify, clarify, clarify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some of my families, first names are repeated. And repeated. When writing about these individuals, clarification is necessary&#8211;to keep the reader\u00a0and the writer from getting confused. Pick a style and stick with it. A few options are: James Rampley (born 1803) James Rampley (son of Thomas) James Rampley (born 1803, son of Thomas) In [&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-5442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442","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=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}