{"id":9273,"date":"2019-09-28T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9273"},"modified":"2019-09-28T22:32:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T22:32:02","slug":"waiting-to-name-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9273","title":{"rendered":"Waiting to Name the Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Families did not always name a child right away. A search of the 1880 census at <em>Ancestry.com <\/em>for the first name of &#8220;Baby&#8221; and a birth year range of 1879-1880 resulted in 2927 results. Even if some of these are incorrect transcriptions, they are all not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1880-baby-1024x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1880-baby-1024x406.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1880-baby-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1880-baby-768x304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1880-baby.jpg 1143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Search results for names in the 1880 census index at <em>Ancestry.com <\/em>with a birth year range of 1879-1880 had the following results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Infant&#8211;2448<\/li><li>Unnamed&#8211;297<\/li><li>Baby*&#8211;2931<\/li><li>Child&#8211;130<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if some of these were foundlings whose names weren&#8217;t truly known, it seems reasonable that not having an immediate name was not unheard of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you think your relative&#8217;s census enumeration is unusual, it&#8217;s advised to see if there were other similar enumerations in the census. That&#8217;s the same with any record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families did not always name a child right away. A search of the 1880 census at Ancestry.com for the first name of &#8220;Baby&#8221; and a birth year range of 1879-1880 resulted in 2927 results. Even if some of these are incorrect transcriptions, they are all not. Search results for names in the 1880 census index [&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-9273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273","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=9273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}