{"id":8995,"date":"2018-10-01T08:57:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2018-10-01T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:57:17","slug":"was-that-really-a-maiden-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/01\/was-that-really-a-maiden-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Was That Really a &#8220;Maiden&#8221; Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Maiden&#8221; names can be tricky in some families. That name a relative used on their first marriage application or marriage record may have been:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the last name they were given when they were born;<\/li>\n<li>the last name of their step-father;<\/li>\n<li>the last name of the couple who adopted\/fostered them;<\/li>\n<li>the last name of their own mother if the parents never married.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those issues are compounded by spelling, interpretation, and transcription errors on the original document. And perhaps that first marriage wasn&#8217;t really the first marriage after all.<\/p>\n<p>If there is no marriage record and one is relying on information children gave on death certificates and other records, a whole additional level of complication is thrown into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Maiden&#8221; names can be tricky in some families. That name a relative used on their first marriage application or marriage record may have been: the last name they were given when they were born; the last name of their step-father; the last name of the couple who adopted\/fostered them; the last name of their own [&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-8995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995","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=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}