{"id":6153,"date":"2017-02-06T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2017-02-05T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T01:42:26","slug":"6153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/06\/6153\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes a Short Name is the Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t assume that because a name is short that it is short for something. Not everything that appears to be a diminutive is necessarily a diminutive for that person&#8217;s name. Bert Hendrickson owed my relative money in the 1920s. My initial attempts to locate him focused on searching for Albert&#8211;because that&#8217;s what Bert &#8220;had&#8221; to stand for.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out his real name was Bert after all.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nicknames.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6154\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nicknames.jpg\" alt=\"nicknames\" width=\"691\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nicknames.jpg 691w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nicknames-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/nicknames-624x335.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t assume that because a name is short that it is short for something. Not everything that appears to be a diminutive is necessarily a diminutive for that person&#8217;s name. Bert Hendrickson owed my relative money in the 1920s. My initial attempts to locate him focused on searching for Albert&#8211;because that&#8217;s what Bert &#8220;had&#8221; to [&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-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","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=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}