{"id":6690,"date":"2017-05-24T19:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T00:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2019-04-13T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T14:16:58","slug":"old-abbreviations-are-on-the-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/24\/old-abbreviations-are-on-the-trunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Abbreviations are on the Trunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6691\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trunk-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trunk-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trunk.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Abbreviations have changed over time. Make certain you are understanding them correctly. This immigrant trunk from the 1870s has the US state of Illinois abbreviated as &#8220;Ills.&#8221; It&#8217;s not &#8220;III5&#8221; as was suggested by the antique dealer from whom I purchased the trunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviations have changed over time. Make certain you are understanding them correctly. This immigrant trunk from the 1870s has the US state of Illinois abbreviated as &#8220;Ills.&#8221; It&#8217;s not &#8220;III5&#8221; as was suggested by the antique dealer from whom I purchased the trunk.<\/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-6690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690","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=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}