{"id":12623,"date":"2020-12-07T07:53:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:44:11","slug":"make-sense-on-the-first-read-marking-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/make-sense-on-the-first-read-marking-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Sense on the First Read? Marking it Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reading a document or record more than once is crucial to actually getting the full value of what it contains. That&#8217;s true for reading genealogical reference materials as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Court, probate, pension and other materials often contain phrases whose meanings may not be completely clear on the first read through. A thorough understanding may require using other reference materials, legal dictionaries, and similar items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find it helpful to have a copy of the document that I use for making annotations and comments&#8211;including marking phrases or items that I do not understand. I also use pencil to mark up my own personal reference books with annotations as well. These reference books are to help me with my research and to help me learn. I&#8217;m not curating an archives of books for someone to use in a hundred years so I feel free to pencil in comments when they enter my mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get <em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/a><\/em>&#8211;the book today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a document or record more than once is crucial to actually getting the full value of what it contains. That&#8217;s true for reading genealogical reference materials as well. Court, probate, pension and other materials often contain phrases whose meanings may not be completely clear on the first read through. A thorough understanding may require [&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-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","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=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}