[I’m “cross-posting” this from my Rootdig blog so subscribers of both have already seen it.] We’ve picked up quite a few new readers since the start of 2016 and we welcome them to the Genealogy Tip of the Day blog. A few general comments follow. Longtime readers should already be aware of these “editorial concerns.” For those who are new, here goes: I don’t post genealogy “news” here–at least the vast majority of the time. I don’t copy and paste press releases to make blog posts. I don’t even use press releases to make blog posts. We don’t copy and paste old tips, but there will be some overlap occasionally as there are only so many tips one can write. I don’t write about any and all topics just to generate traffic and […]
Only record what a record provides evidence of. Sophia Trautvetter’s stone at the Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois, cemetery does not mean she died in Tioga. She could have died in a nearby village, township, or county. Practically speaking, she likely died within a reasonable distance of where she was buried. However our entry for her death place should not say she died in Tioga. The stone does not indicate that.
I have a certified copy of my birth record from the county in which I was born. It is signed by an official in the county recorder’s office and has the county seal affixed. It “certifies” that there is a record of my birth (with the date and name of my parents) contained within the birth records of the county. That’s it. It is not an actual reproduction of my actual birth record. It does not include all the information from my actual birth record. Certifications are created to “certify” that the record exists. They are usually sufficient for situations where it is simply necessary to prove the event took place and was recorded. Genealogists usually need a reproduction of the actual record. That makes certain all the […]
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