{"id":11463,"date":"2020-03-26T12:39:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2020-03-26T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:39:59","slug":"the-little-differences-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/26\/the-little-differences-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Differences Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is always advised to compare a record of your ancestor to others in the same series of records. How does the amount of detail compare? If the document is a death certificate, is it filed in the same time frame after the death as the others? If it is a handwritten baptismal entry is there something about it that is different from others? Whenever you are confused about a document, look at similar ones to get a reference point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phone-how-different.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phone-how-different.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phone-how-different-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can&#8217;t know what&#8217;s unusual if you don&#8217;t know what other ones look like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like this phone from my childhood. It sat on top of a box of toys in my Grandparents&#8217; home for years. I thought they came with a red O. They don&#8217;t. Grandma painted it that way so I&#8217;d quit hitting it and getting mad when the operator popped out. The phone was different from others and there was a reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The differences in records are a little more important than trying to stop a two-year old from hitting the button on a red phone. Or maybe they aren&#8217;t any more important, But they are clues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here and it\u2019s not written to help you research your \u201cfamous ancestors.\u201d It\u2019s written to help with all of them.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always advised to compare a record of your ancestor to others in the same series of records. How does the amount of detail compare? If the document is a death certificate, is it filed in the same time frame after the death as the others? If it is a handwritten baptismal entry is [&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-11463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463","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=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}