{"id":7299,"date":"2017-10-02T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2017-10-02T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:43:35","slug":"how-fixed-was-that-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/how-fixed-was-that-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How Fixed Was That Last Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person&#8217;s last name might not have been as &#8220;fixed&#8221; as you think.\u00a0There are several reasons why your ancestor&#8217;s last name may not be as permanent as you think, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>gender<\/em>&#8211;women in some cultures change last names upon marriage (some cultures do not do this)<\/li>\n<li><em>ethnicity<\/em>&#8211;in some cultures the same name is not passed from parent to child<\/li>\n<li><em>parental marital status<\/em>&#8211;a parent marrying after the child is born may cause the child to be listed with different names in records<\/li>\n<li><em>attempts to avoid &#8220;the law&#8221;<\/em>&#8211;your relative may have changed his name to avoid authorities<\/li>\n<li><em>desire to hide ethnicity<\/em>&#8211;your relative may have changed or alter his name to disguise his ethnic origins<\/li>\n<li><em>desire to be unique<\/em>&#8211;if the town was full of Carl Carlsons, your relative may have changed his name to avoid confusion<\/li>\n<li><em>family squabbles<\/em>&#8211;your ancestor may have changed his name (or its spelling) to avoid be associated with certain relatives<\/li>\n<li><em>translation<\/em>&#8211;your ancestor (or some clerk) may have translated your ancestor&#8217;s last name into a different language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Name changes are not just for non-English speaking immigrants. Others had reasons to change their last name or have it changed for them as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person&#8217;s last name might not have been as &#8220;fixed&#8221; as you think.\u00a0There are several reasons why your ancestor&#8217;s last name may not be as permanent as you think, including: gender&#8211;women in some cultures change last names upon marriage (some cultures do not do this) ethnicity&#8211;in some cultures the same name is not passed from [&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-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","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=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}