{"id":6788,"date":"2017-06-15T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2017-06-15T00:08:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T05:08:16","slug":"read-the-abbreviations-list-in-city-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/read-the-abbreviations-list-in-city-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Abbreviations List in City Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City directories may contain list of abbreviations in the prefatory material. Do not just look for your relative&#8217;s name and quit.Those lists may include name of local employers that were easier to abbreviate than print over and over.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6789\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/abbreviations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/abbreviations.jpg 663w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/abbreviations-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/abbreviations-624x471.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank. <\/em>Try their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City directories may contain list of abbreviations in the prefatory material. Do not just look for your relative&#8217;s name and quit.Those lists may include name of local employers that were easier to abbreviate than print over and over. Genealogy Tip of the Day is proudly sponsored by\u00a0GenealogyBank. Try their \u201cGenealogyBank Search\u201d and see what discoveries [&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-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","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=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}