{"id":15000,"date":"2022-04-03T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15000"},"modified":"2022-04-03T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T19:27:22","slug":"transcribe-as-written-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/transcribe-as-written-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcribe as Written"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/19953220\/mullen\">tombstone, Rebecca Mullen died on 29 February 1849 and is buried in Galena, Ohio.<\/a> 1849 was not a leap year and there was no 29th of  February. Given that, my transcription of the stone would include [<em>sic<\/em>] after the date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the time period and the place, it&#8217;s doubtful I find a contemporary record that provides a different date of death. But my transcription should indicate that the date was copied exactly as it was inscribed on the stone. <em>Sic<\/em> is the best way to do that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/27\/2022-group-trip-to-the-family-history-library\/\">Join me in Salt Lake this summer for a week of research!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to her tombstone, Rebecca Mullen died on 29 February 1849 and is buried in Galena, Ohio. 1849 was not a leap year and there was no 29th of February. Given that, my transcription of the stone would include [sic] after the date. Given the time period and the place, it&#8217;s doubtful I find a [&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-15000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15000","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=15000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}