{"id":15822,"date":"2022-10-04T18:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T23:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15822"},"modified":"2022-10-05T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T23:48:11","slug":"edging-your-way-to-a-clue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/04\/edging-your-way-to-a-clue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Edging Your Way to a Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From August of 2018:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The edges of a document can often contain clues just as significant as those in the main body of a document. Clerks may squeeze in additional text for legal reasons, pastors may squeeze in parenthetical comments about a parishioner, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the edges themselves can be a clue.&nbsp; Many times when documents are digitized or microfilmed, it may not be crystal clear which \u201cfront\u201d goes with which \u201cback.\u201d That determination can be difficult when the documents are a variety of sizes, blank sides aren\u2019t digitized, etc. And there are times when knowing which \u201cfront\u201d goes with which \u201cback\u201d is essential to completely analyzing and interpreting the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7466\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aden-homestead-3-1024x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aden-homestead-3-1024x232.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aden-homestead-3-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aden-homestead-3-768x174.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aden-homestead-3-624x141.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aden-homestead-3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This relinquishment from a homestead application in Nebraska was one of those documents. Comparing the edges made it clear that I had the front and the back of the same thing.&nbsp; It may require a little creativity with a graphics package to place the edges to where you can compare them, but it may be worth the effort.<br>There are&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7466\">more details about this image in our \u201cdetailed edges\u201d post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nTry a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">Genealogy Search<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<em>GenealogyBank.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From August of 2018: The edges of a document can often contain clues just as significant as those in the main body of a document. Clerks may squeeze in additional text for legal reasons, pastors may squeeze in parenthetical comments about a parishioner, etc. Sometimes the edges themselves can be a clue.&nbsp; Many times when [&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-15822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822","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=15822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}