{"id":5807,"date":"2016-11-30T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:39:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T14:39:21","slug":"the-first-time-ive-seen-it-in-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/30\/the-first-time-ive-seen-it-in-a-record\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time I&#8217;ve Seen It In a Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve operated on the belief that the maiden name of an ancestor was Dunaway. I had never seen it written on an actual record. The first reference to the name was on a family group chart someone compiled years ago with no indication of a source listed. The name had simply been copied and copied over and over. This 1900 death certificate for a daughter of the woman listed the maiden name. Maybe it&#8217;s Dunaway and maybe it&#8217;s not, but if your only source is a reference that is completely uncited there&#8217;s a chance it might not be right.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nancy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5808\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nancy-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"nancy\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nancy-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nancy-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nancy-624x327.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nancy.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve operated on the belief that the maiden name of an ancestor was Dunaway. I had never seen it written on an actual record. The first reference to the name was on a family group chart someone compiled years ago with no indication of a source listed. The name had simply been copied [&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-5807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807","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=5807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}