{"id":6212,"date":"2017-02-20T15:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T21:29:19","slug":"initial-letter-or-prefix-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/20\/initial-letter-or-prefix-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Letter or Prefix Dropped?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial letters or prefixes of names can be intentionally or inadvertently omitted, with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knight becoming Night<\/li>\n<li>Hoffman becoming Aufmann<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Neill becoming Neill<\/li>\n<li>MacArthur becoming Arthur<\/li>\n<li>Van De Burg becoming Berg<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is it possible a first letter or two was dropped when your name of interest was entered in a record?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170220_152003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6213\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170220_152003-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"img_20170220_152003\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170220_152003-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170220_152003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170220_152003-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170220_152003-624x417.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial letters or prefixes of names can be intentionally or inadvertently omitted, with: Knight becoming Night Hoffman becoming Aufmann O&#8217;Neill becoming Neill MacArthur becoming Arthur Van De Burg becoming Berg etc. Is it possible a first letter or two was dropped when your name of interest was entered in a record?\u00a0<\/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-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212","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=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}