{"id":17557,"date":"2024-01-21T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17557"},"modified":"2024-01-22T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:52:27","slug":"why-cite-an-unofficial-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/why-cite-an-unofficial-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cite an &#8220;Unofficial&#8221; Copy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/clearly-state-what-it-is\/\">Clearly State What It Is<\/a>&#8221; we talked about citing a copy of a will that was found in my Grandmother&#8217;s personal papers. There are reasons to use it, even if an official copy is available at the records office. Sometimes it&#8217;s simply cheaper and more practical to use a copy of that type. But occasionally there are even better reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copy my Grandmother had included her handwritten notes about the will (which I won&#8217;t reproduce here). The courthouse copy won&#8217;t include those notes. My citation for the complete image of the copy of the will my Grandmother had also includes a short bracketed comment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[handwritten commentary appears to be written by Ida (Trautvetter) Neill and was identified by Michael John Neill]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That way someone later knows how the handwriting was identified. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Clearly State What It Is&#8221; we talked about citing a copy of a will that was found in my Grandmother&#8217;s personal papers. There are reasons to use it, even if an official copy is available at the records office. Sometimes it&#8217;s simply cheaper and more practical to use a copy of that type. But [&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-17557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557","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=17557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}