{"id":52779,"date":"2019-09-19T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=52779"},"modified":"2019-09-24T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:24:36","slug":"genealogy-tip-what-does-aet-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-tip-what-does-aet-mean.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Tip: What Does \u2018\u00c6t\u2019 Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogists often see the abbreviation \u201c\u00c6t\u201d on tombstones, and it also commonly appeared in American newspapers. Here is an example, published in a Maine newspaper 200 years ago, in 1819.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52781\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A10F19D9F813DBBD8%40GB3NEWS-10FA04E06BD603F0%402385637-10FA04E1E531F518%403-10FA04E4C692B570\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hallowell-gazette-newspaper-0721-1819-samuel-payson-obituary.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Samuel Payson, Hallowell Gazette newspaper article 21 July 1819\" width=\"346\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hallowell-gazette-newspaper-0721-1819-samuel-payson-obituary.png 346w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hallowell-gazette-newspaper-0721-1819-samuel-payson-obituary-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hallowell Gazette (Hallowell, Maine), 21 July 1819, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Merriam-Webster, \u00c6t is the abbreviation for the Latin adjective \u201caetatis\u201d and means: \u201cat the age of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this example we see that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/tree\/person\/details\/KGCJ-D9V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capt. Samuel Payson<\/a> was aged 85 when he died.<\/p>\n<p>And now you know.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/\">old newspapers<\/a> with confidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/a-genealogists-guide-to-old-latin-terms-abbreviations.html\">A Genealogist\u2019s Guide to Old Latin Terms &amp; Abbreviations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp explains what the Latin phrase \u201c\u00c6t\u201d means, which genealogists see on tombstones and in old newspaper articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,46739,6808],"class_list":["post-52779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-genealogy-terms-and-abbreviations","tag-latin"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/photo-0810-2016-cemetery-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}