{"id":15936,"date":"2022-11-09T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15936"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:33:36","slug":"the-organization-of-the-originals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/the-organization-of-the-originals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Organization of the Originals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many indexes do not include every name, indexes can contain errors, and some records are completely unindexed. No matter the situation, there are times when the researcher needs to undertake a manual, page-by-page search. The questions to ask are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How are the original records organized?&nbsp;<\/strong>Is it by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>date of the event or document\u2013<em>sometimes this is known, sometimes it is not<\/em><\/li><li>date the item was recorded\u2013<em>often not known\u2013but it is after the event took place<\/em><\/li><li>the person\u2019s residence, burial spot, or other geographic location\u2013<em>sometimes known, but not always<\/em><\/li><li>military unit or some other assigned number\u2013<em>can be difficult to know, is there some other record that provides this information?<\/em><\/li><li>something else\u2013<em>variability here<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To find the person in the desired record, it may be necessary to look at other records (organized differently) that may provide the needed information to search the desired record manually. A city directory may provide an address for use in census searches. A family bible may provide a death date to use in searching death records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indexes won\u2019t find everyone, but doing some homework before starting a page-by-page search can save you some time. Sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many indexes do not include every name, indexes can contain errors, and some records are completely unindexed. No matter the situation, there are times when the researcher needs to undertake a manual, page-by-page search. The questions to ask are: How are the original records organized?&nbsp;Is it by: date of the event or document\u2013sometimes this is [&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-15936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936","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=15936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}