{"id":12532,"date":"2020-11-21T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12532"},"modified":"2020-11-21T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T13:30:39","slug":"the-key-intro-explanation-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/21\/the-key-intro-explanation-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Key, Intro, Explanation, Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"919\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/directory-intro-919x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/directory-intro-919x1024.jpg 919w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/directory-intro-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/directory-intro-768x856.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is more to using reference materials than simply seeing if your item or person of interest is included. The publication&#8217;s preface or introduction may include additional material to help explain the reference you found to the person or item for which you were looking. There may be a list of abbreviations, an explanation of the book&#8217;s format, a summary of items used, etc. all of which are helpful in interpreting the item correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t just copy the page that includes that for which you are searching and quit. The front matter of these books matter if one hopes to interpret the information correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is more to using reference materials than simply seeing if your item or person of interest is included. The publication&#8217;s preface or introduction may include additional material to help explain the reference you found to the person or item for which you were looking. There may be a list of abbreviations, an explanation of [&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-12532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12532","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=12532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}