{"id":3832,"date":"2016-12-20T15:17:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:17:53","slug":"louis-or-sonis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3832","title":{"rendered":"Louis or Sonis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add this to the list of spelling variants that I had never thought of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sonis for Louis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/2126961\">&#8220;Iowa State Census-1905&#8221; database at\u00a0<\/a><em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>contains several entries for the first name of Sonis. Based upon the actual card, I&#8217;m surmising that the intent was probably Louis, although one can easily see how the initial letter in this instance could be seen as an &#8220;S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another reason to search databases using parameters other than the first name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/louis-or-sonis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3833\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/louis-or-sonis.jpg\" alt=\"louis-or-sonis\" width=\"772\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/louis-or-sonis.jpg 772w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/louis-or-sonis-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/louis-or-sonis-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add this to the list of spelling variants that I had never thought of: Sonis for Louis The &#8220;Iowa State Census-1905&#8221; database at\u00a0FamilySearch\u00a0contains several entries for the first name of Sonis. Based upon the actual card, I&#8217;m surmising that the intent was probably Louis, although one can easily see how the initial letter in this [&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-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","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=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}