{"id":15797,"date":"2022-09-28T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15797"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:33:05","slug":"its-not-my-job-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/its-not-my-job-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not My Job to Fix It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/underlinings.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/underlinings.jpg 885w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/underlinings-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/underlinings-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Clerks making record copies of documents often encounter errors or inconsistencies in the original record they are recording. In the days when transcriptions were made by hand (or by using a typewriter), clerks would often annotate such things. In the illustration, the typist has underlined known errors or inconsistencies in the original document. These notations used by clerks can vary&#8211;lines may have been written above questionable text as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clerk&#8217;s job was to transcribe the document exactly as it was written&#8211;errors and all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/22\/webinars-migration-virginia-chancery-land-at-familysearch\/\">Don&#8217;t forget our webinars, on 29 September 2022. Join live or pre-order. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clerks making record copies of documents often encounter errors or inconsistencies in the original record they are recording. In the days when transcriptions were made by hand (or by using a typewriter), clerks would often annotate such things. In the illustration, the typist has underlined known errors or inconsistencies in the original document. These notations [&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-15797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15797","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=15797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}