{"id":7753,"date":"2017-12-28T21:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T03:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7753"},"modified":"2017-12-28T19:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T01:30:35","slug":"abbreviations-can-change-but-dont-abbreviate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/28\/abbreviations-can-change-but-dont-abbreviate\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbreviations Can Change&#8211;But Don&#8217;t Abbreviate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviations for place names can change over time. What is used for a location today may not be what was used one hundred years ago. Sometimes old forms fall out of use or governmental or postal regulations change the &#8220;standard&#8221; abbreviation. Some census takers or other record officials make their own abbreviations when they tire of writing the same location over and over. Self-made abbreviations may be unique to the creator and are best analyzed with local geographic names in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes two location can have the same abbreviation. In some US census records Canada and California are both abbreviated &#8220;Ca.&#8221; Others chose to abbreviate it as &#8220;Can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes Indiana was abbreviated as &#8220;Ia.&#8221; Today that&#8217;s the state of Iowa. But if you see it in an 1850 census enumeration for someone living in Indiana,chances are it means Indiana. Probably.<\/p>\n<p>And do not abbreviate yourself. Take the time to write out the entire place name. Same someone else the confusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviations for place names can change over time. What is used for a location today may not be what was used one hundred years ago. Sometimes old forms fall out of use or governmental or postal regulations change the &#8220;standard&#8221; abbreviation. Some census takers or other record officials make their own abbreviations when they tire [&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-7753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","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=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}