{"id":8192,"date":"2018-12-22T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2018-12-22T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:18:32","slug":"that-line-above-the-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8192","title":{"rendered":"That Line Above the &#8220;n&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8193\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/lineabovel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/lineabovel.jpg 320w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/lineabovel-300x93.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>In an earlier blog post, we mentioned lines above consonants being used as a short hand to indicate a double letter. The sample item in that discussion was from the late 19th century in Nebraska, by a pastor whose ethnicity was unknown, but was probably German.<\/p>\n<p>In this 1796 baptismal entry for Johann Michael Trautvetter the same notation is used. In fact, it&#8217;s used twice as the godfather is also named Johann Michael Trautvetter and the line over the first &#8220;n&#8221; in his first name also has the same meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier blog post, we mentioned lines above consonants being used as a short hand to indicate a double letter. The sample item in that discussion was from the late 19th century in Nebraska, by a pastor whose ethnicity was unknown, but was probably German. In this 1796 baptismal entry for Johann Michael Trautvetter [&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-8192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192","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=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}