{"id":7696,"date":"2017-12-16T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2017-12-16T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T16:02:41","slug":"try-that-for-starters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/16\/try-that-for-starters\/","title":{"rendered":"Try That for Starters&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A relative&#8217;s name\u00a0first name is Christian. Sometimes he&#8217;s listed in records as Chris&#8211;which makes perfect sense. Other times he is clearly listed as Christopher, although that&#8217;s not his name. Is it possible your ancestor whose name is John occasionally gets listed as Jonathan? Did Michael become Micah in some record?<\/p>\n<p>Stay open to the possibility that some clerk, official, or enumerator took the first few letters of your relative&#8217;s actual name and used another name starting with those same few letters.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how Geske becomes Gertrude and that&#8217;s how we can easily overlook potential references to our ancestors.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1712GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank<\/a><\/em>\u2018s offer for our fans, followers, and subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relative&#8217;s name\u00a0first name is Christian. Sometimes he&#8217;s listed in records as Chris&#8211;which makes perfect sense. Other times he is clearly listed as Christopher, although that&#8217;s not his name. Is it possible your ancestor whose name is John occasionally gets listed as Jonathan? Did Michael become Micah in some record? Stay open to the possibility [&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-7696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696","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=7696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}