{"id":6,"date":"2015-06-01T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2015-06-01T21:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:22:44","slug":"ira-and-ira-or-ira-and-isa-which-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Ira and Ira or Ira and Isa: Which Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to see how someone might think that the husband and wife in this Price household had the same first name.<\/p>\n<p>They do look an awful lot alike and that&#8217;s exactly how the transcriber creating the index at <em>Ancestry.com <\/em>transcribed it: Isa.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iraisa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-7 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iraisa-300x90.jpg\" alt=\"iraisa\" width=\"647\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iraisa-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/iraisa.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The head of household was Ira F. Price. His wife was Isa M. Price. \u00a0It&#8217;s not often a husband and wife appear to have the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Ira F. Price was the son of Lucretia (Sargent) Price and the nephew of my ancestor, Ira Sargent. Ira F. was the only of Lucretia&#8217;s children named for any of her siblings&#8211;however, I have no idea if she and her brother Ira were particularly close or not and Lucretia&#8217;s use of the first name has me wondering if Ira was perhaps named for another Ira in his family.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve not found one. But maybe there&#8217;s another Ira lurking out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to see how someone might think that the husband and wife in this Price household had the same first name. They do look an awful lot alike and that&#8217;s exactly how the transcriber creating the index at Ancestry.com transcribed it: Isa.\u00a0 &nbsp; The head of household was Ira F. Price. His wife was [&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":[3],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ira-sargent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","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=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}