{"id":10287,"date":"2019-07-19T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10287"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:42:03","slug":"how-burned-was-that-burned-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/how-burned-was-that-burned-county\/","title":{"rendered":"How Burned Was that Burned County?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The courthouse was burned&#8221; is one of those phrases that causes  a significant amount of genealogical swearing. When you hear this phrase, remember to ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Did the entire courthouse burn? <\/li><li>Were all offices in the same location?<\/li><li>Were any records salvaged?<\/li><li>Were some documents &#8220;restored?&#8221;<\/li><li>Were residents asked to bring any originals in to be recorded again?<\/li><li>Would newspapers hold some of the missing information?<\/li><li>Are there federal records that would provide the same information?<\/li><li>Have I asked locals knowledgeable about the local records what materials might be available?<\/li><li>etc. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The courthouse was burned&#8221; is one of those phrases that causes a significant amount of genealogical swearing. When you hear this phrase, remember to ask: Did the entire courthouse burn? Were all offices in the same location? Were any records salvaged? Were some documents &#8220;restored?&#8221; Were residents asked to bring any originals in to be [&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-10287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287","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=10287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}