{"id":10042,"date":"2019-05-14T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10042"},"modified":"2019-05-14T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:46:41","slug":"familiarize-yourself-with-the-records-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/familiarize-yourself-with-the-records-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiarize Yourself with the Records First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nI first worked on my children&#8217;s Belgian ancestors years ago. When using the vital records from the 19th century, I used them the way I had other European records from the same time span. I looked in the &#8220;book&#8221; for and read through the entries for the years I thought included the person&#8217;s birth date. Then, if I had the correct person and had the names of the parents, I scanned the years before and after the birth to locate siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine my surprise when I found indexes interspersed in the records. I had never encountered those before. While indexes are not perfect, they would have saved me a great deal of time.&nbsp;<br>Moral-the first time you use any &#8220;new&#8221; record, familiarize yourself with the whole thing first, don&#8217;t assume that it is like every other one you have ever used.&nbsp;\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first worked on my children&#8217;s Belgian ancestors years ago. When using the vital records from the 19th century, I used them the way I had other European records from the same time span. I looked in the &#8220;book&#8221; for and read through the entries for the years I thought included the person&#8217;s birth date. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}