{"id":11408,"date":"2020-03-12T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11408"},"modified":"2020-03-13T07:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T12:06:33","slug":"the-point-in-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/the-point-in-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point in the Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many records used in genealogical research were created as a part of a larger process or flow or information and records. When analyzing a document or working to understand it, determine what that process was. It&#8217;s also helpful to understand what function the document or record served in that process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birth certificates were to document a birth, but summaries of information from those records may have been used for a variety of governmental purposes. The specific details of what was on the record may have been used by the individual to document their age, their parentage, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Death certificates are used to document a death, but different pieces of information from that record are used by different individuals for a variety of reasons: compilation of cause of death statistics, proof of death for insurance and other purposes, burial permits, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probate, court, and pension files usually contain a series of documents that generally stretch from the beginning of the case to the end. Each document serves a purpose. Organizing them chronologically can help in determining what that purpose was, but that&#8217;s usually just a starting point in that analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Asking yourself these questions will help you in analyzing any record:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>why was this document created?<\/li><li>who used the information on this document?<\/li><li>how does this document fit in a larger series of documents?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many records used in genealogical research were created as a part of a larger process or flow or information and records. When analyzing a document or working to understand it, determine what that process was. It&#8217;s also helpful to understand what function the document or record served in that process. Birth certificates were to document [&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-11408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408","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=11408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}