{"id":14725,"date":"2022-02-05T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14725"},"modified":"2022-02-05T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T15:09:29","slug":"scan-the-whole-thing-first-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/05\/scan-the-whole-thing-first-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Scan the Whole Thing First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post is not about digitally scanning documents. This one is about actually using your eyeballs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I first worked on my children&#8217;s Belgian ancestors years ago. When using the vital records from the 19th century, I used them the way I had other European records from the same time span. I looked in the &#8220;book&#8221; for and read through the entries for the years I thought included the person&#8217;s birth date. Then, if I had the correct person and had the names of the parents, I scanned the years before and after the birth to locate siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine my surprise when I found indexes interspersed in the records. I had never encountered those before. While indexes are not perfect, they would have saved me a great deal of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The first time you use any &#8220;new&#8221; record, familiarize yourself with the whole thing first, don&#8217;t assume that it is like every other one you have ever used.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is not about digitally scanning documents. This one is about actually using your eyeballs. I first worked on my children&#8217;s Belgian ancestors years ago. When using the vital records from the 19th century, I used them the way I had other European records from the same time span. I looked in the &#8220;book&#8221; [&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-14725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14725","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=14725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}