{"id":7167,"date":"2018-06-27T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2018-06-27T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:29:08","slug":"three-trientjes-in-three-adjacent-households-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7167","title":{"rendered":"Three Trientjes in Three Adjacent Households"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7168\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1910_trientje.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1910_trientje.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1910_trientje-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>This image comes from the 1910 Census for Northeast Township&#8217;s Second Precinct in Adams County, Illinois. In three households in a row the lady of the house is named Trientje. I always knew Trientje was a good Ostfriesen name (my great-grandmother was a Trientje and I have numerous earlier ancestors named Trientje), but this really drove the point home.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a note to those who have an ancestor named Trientje, it is a low-German diminutive for Katherine\/Catherine. Consequently that&#8217;s why you might see it Anglicized to Katherine and variations on that name. Of course, some people used Tena, which is what my great-grandmother used.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The couple on entry 35, Henry and Trientje (Behrens) Sartorius, are my 3rd great-grandparents. Sometimes this Trientje is referred as Trientje Katherine Behrens. Katherine is\u00a0<em>not<\/em> her middle name&#8211;it&#8217;s the anglicization of Trientje. Her middle name was actually Ulferts, which was a patronymic based upon the first name of her father, Ulfert Behrens.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But Trientje? Just about everyone of Ostfriesen descent has a Trientje in their family tree.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image comes from the 1910 Census for Northeast Township&#8217;s Second Precinct in Adams County, Illinois. In three households in a row the lady of the house is named Trientje. I always knew Trientje was a good Ostfriesen name (my great-grandmother was a Trientje and I have numerous earlier ancestors named Trientje), but this really [&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-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","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=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}