{"id":3656,"date":"2016-11-28T22:06:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T22:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2016-11-28T22:06:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T22:06:47","slug":"converting-b-r-newman-to-br-newman-thanks-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"Converting B. R. Newman to Br Newman&#8211;Thanks Ancestry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is bad enough when records only list people using their initials. In this entry from <em>Ancestry.com&#8217;s <\/em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10470501-1479856457000?url=http%3A%2F%2Finteractive.ancestry.com%2F8823%2F42563_fp030872_0066-00164%2F4046637%3Fbackurl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fsearch.ancestry.com%252fcgi-bin%252fsse.dll%253fdb%253dIAMarriageRec%2526gss%253dsfs28_ms_r_db%2526new%253d1%2526rank%253d1%2526gsln%253dnewman%2526gsln_x%253d1%2526msgpn__ftp%253dLinn%252520County%25252C%252520Iowa%25252C%252520USA%2526msgpn%253d1784%2526msgpn_PInfo%253d7-%25257C0%25257C1652393%25257C0%25257C2%25257C0%25257C18%25257C0%25257C1784%25257C0%25257C0%25257C0%25257C%2526MSAV%253d1%2526uidh%253dko5%26backlabel%3DReturnSearchResults\">Iowa, Marriage records, 1880-1937<\/a>,&#8221; the initials have been condensed into names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>B. R. Newman became Br Newman<\/li>\n<li>T. D. Newman became Td Newman<\/li>\n<li>E. J. Walter became Ej Walter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just when you think there&#8217;s not another way things can be interpreted incorrectly. Some errors I understand. This one&#8230;no.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10470501-1479856457000?url=http%3A%2F%2Finteractive.ancestry.com%2F8823%2F42563_fp030872_0066-00164%2F4046637%3Fbackurl%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fsearch.ancestry.com%252fcgi-bin%252fsse.dll%253fdb%253dIAMarriageRec%2526gss%253dsfs28_ms_r_db%2526new%253d1%2526rank%253d1%2526gsln%253dnewman%2526gsln_x%253d1%2526msgpn__ftp%253dLinn%252520County%25252C%252520Iowa%25252C%252520USA%2526msgpn%253d1784%2526msgpn_PInfo%253d7-%25257C0%25257C1652393%25257C0%25257C2%25257C0%25257C18%25257C0%25257C1784%25257C0%25257C0%25257C0%25257C%2526MSAV%253d1%2526uidh%253dko5%26backlabel%3DReturnSearchResults\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3657\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/initials.jpg\" alt=\"initials\" width=\"650\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/initials.jpg 953w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/initials-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/initials-768x360.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is bad enough when records only list people using their initials. In this entry from Ancestry.com&#8217;s &#8220;Iowa, Marriage records, 1880-1937,&#8221; the initials have been condensed into names: B. R. Newman became Br Newman T. D. Newman became Td Newman E. J. Walter became Ej Walter Just when you think there&#8217;s not another way things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}