It can be difficult to think of a “totally new” tip every day, so we’re reminding readers of the importance of looking at the original document. It may provide more details than the index or the index’s transcription may be incorrect.
Remember that indexes are only a means to get you to the original.
A look at the Ancestry.com “story” for my own ancestor is a good example of how using incomplete transcriptions and erroneous ones (apparently) can make for a story that’s just not quite what it should be.
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