{"id":8234,"date":"2018-12-31T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2018-12-31T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:23:31","slug":"its-probably-richard-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8234","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Probably Richard, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8235\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image-35-300x245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image-35-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image-35.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This letter comprises the &#8220;consents&#8221; on an 1839 marriage in Mercer County, Kentucky, between Edmund Beesly and Mildred Lake. Their apparent fathers sign the document.<\/p>\n<p>The father of Mildred is Richard Lake. However, that&#8217;s not what it looks like in this image. So, should it be transcribed as Ritchard or Bitchard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter comprises the &#8220;consents&#8221; on an 1839 marriage in Mercer County, Kentucky, between Edmund Beesly and Mildred Lake. Their apparent fathers sign the document. The father of Mildred is Richard Lake. However, that&#8217;s not what it looks like in this image. So, should it be transcribed as Ritchard or Bitchard?<\/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-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","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=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}