When I posted this mage to our Facebook page a few days back, I neglected to indicate where the record image came from.
And I’m not talking about FamilySearch although that’s an important part of any citation—where the image was actually accessed.
What this actually is is more important. It’s an image of the record copy of judge’s findings in an early 20th century court case. It’s not an image of the actual judge’s report of findings. It’s a typed up copy of that report that was put in the court record. The original report is still in the case file of court papers for this case.
If I don’t indicate where this actually came from, then it’s just a picture of a typed piece of paper.
So…this is from page 199 of Chancery Record 34 in the Circuit Court records contained in the Circuit Clerk’s Office in Hancock County, Illinois. It was obtained as a digital image on FamilySearch in October of 2024 (and just viewed again today). That’s where I got it and that’s what it was.
But….
I also need to understand what this is in the Chancery record that I’m actually looking at is. It’s a transcript of the court’s findings in the case (that was discovered by looking a few pages earlier in the record where all this material started). There it is indicated who provided the testimony. This is the typed up record copy of the judge’s findings and report. The original copy is in the packet of loose papers in the case file (that’s not indicated in the typed up record book, but is something I know from my knowledge of the records).
Also in reading all that material in the Chancery record book–and there are pages devoted to this case, it indicated who provided the testimony, Joseph Diehl and Louis Lamet. Lamet was a local attorney. I’m not certain who Diehl was, but he does not appear to have been a relative.
I need to see the actual case file of papers.
But I need to know what I’m actually looking at when I’m looking at something.
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