{"id":14038,"date":"2021-09-21T23:18:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14038"},"modified":"2021-09-21T23:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T04:18:40","slug":"read-the-original-before-incorporating-that-transcribed-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/21\/read-the-original-before-incorporating-that-transcribed-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Original Before Incorporating that Transcribed Location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ancestry, FamilySearch, and other online genealogical data storehouses attempt to make it easier to &#8220;grow your tree&#8221; by allowing the user to directly import a transcription from a record into an &#8220;event&#8221; for a person in their tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It truly makes it &#8220;point and click&#8221; easy to add events and locations to an online tree. It&#8217;s the reason why many online trees indicate my great-grandmother died in Wapello County, Iowa instead of Lee County, Iowa (because the location was transcribed incorrectly). It&#8217;s the reason why ancestor Focke Goldenstein is listed as having a variety of &#8220;first names&#8221; of which several stem from incorrect transcriptions of records (some come from his name being spelled wrong, which is a slightly different problem). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the original record before including something from that record in your tree. Transcriptions can be incorrect.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry, FamilySearch, and other online genealogical data storehouses attempt to make it easier to &#8220;grow your tree&#8221; by allowing the user to directly import a transcription from a record into an &#8220;event&#8221; for a person in their tree. It truly makes it &#8220;point and click&#8221; easy to add events and locations to an online tree. [&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-14038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038","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=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}