{"id":15940,"date":"2022-11-10T05:43:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T11:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15940"},"modified":"2022-11-12T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T13:24:34","slug":"contextual-transcriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/10\/contextual-transcriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Contextual Transcriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At first the location on this military discharge stymied me. Then I looked at the date and it made perfect sense. A US military discharge in 1847 could easily have been done in Mexico. A little geographic searching determined the town was Comargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1379\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico.jpg 1379w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico-1024x520.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1379px) 100vw, 1379px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Always transcribe a document in context\u2013it helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try a <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>\u00a0on\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first the location on this military discharge stymied me. Then I looked at the date and it made perfect sense. A US military discharge in 1847 could easily have been done in Mexico. A little geographic searching determined the town was Comargo. Always transcribe a document in context\u2013it helps. Try a Genealogy Search\u00a0on\u00a0GenealogyBank.<\/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-15940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940","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=15940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}