{"id":8078,"date":"2018-03-07T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2018-03-07T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:37:05","slug":"do-i-need-the-mustard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/07\/do-i-need-the-mustard\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Need the Mustard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8079\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/senf-mustard-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/senf-mustard-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/senf-mustard.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/>Is it possible that your immigrant ancestor&#8217;s last name was translated before being written in a document or a census record?<\/p>\n<p>While I doubt if my Aunt Wilhelmina Senf is enumerated as Wilhelmina Mustard (I&#8217;ve looked), other last names may have been translated into the local language. Your Schneider ancestor may have been enumerated as a Tailor\/Taylor. Your Blanc ancestor may have been enumerated with the last name White. And your Verde ancestor may have been listed as a Green.<\/p>\n<p>So it may be perfectly normal for me to be sitting at the computer looking for Mustard instead of going into the kitchen cabinet &lt;grin&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible that your immigrant ancestor&#8217;s last name was translated before being written in a document or a census record? While I doubt if my Aunt Wilhelmina Senf is enumerated as Wilhelmina Mustard (I&#8217;ve looked), other last names may have been translated into the local language. Your Schneider ancestor may have been enumerated as [&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-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","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=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}