{"id":7739,"date":"2017-12-27T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2021-07-17T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:19:41","slug":"maine-maryland-whats-the-real-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/27\/maine-maryland-whats-the-real-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine, Maryland, What&#8217;s the Real Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easier to get locations confused when you&#8217;ve never been there and the places are hundreds of miles away. The place of birth for the mother on this death certificate says &#8220;Maine.&#8221; It should be &#8220;Maryland.&#8221; The family never lived in Maine and had no connection to that state.<\/p>\n<p>It is also possible that someone, in taking notes to complete the certificate, wrote &#8220;Md&#8221; in such a sloppy fashion that someone else later read it as &#8220;Me.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7742\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/me-not-md.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/me-not-md.jpg 750w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/me-not-md-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/me-not-md-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Get\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">the book\u2013either from us directly or from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be easier to get locations confused when you&#8217;ve never been there and the places are hundreds of miles away. The place of birth for the mother on this death certificate says &#8220;Maine.&#8221; It should be &#8220;Maryland.&#8221; The family never lived in Maine and had no connection to that state. It is also possible [&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-7739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739","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=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}