{"id":20795,"date":"2024-08-10T15:29:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T20:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20795"},"modified":"2024-08-10T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T20:29:34","slug":"how-close-was-that-hard-to-read-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/how-close-was-that-hard-to-read-town\/","title":{"rendered":"How Close Was that Hard-to-Read Town?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Transcribing foreign language records can be difficult. Comparing a record to others in the same series to see which text is repeated is one helpful approach. Using words common to a record is another way to work out how&nbsp;a writer usually wrote certain letters or words. Determining place names mentioned in records is sometimes difficult.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it pays to think about the logistics, especially with christening records.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a child is born on one date and baptised a day or two after and the location of a sponsor is difficult to read, remember how news would have travelled at the time. A sponsor from a different town is not traveling far for a baptism in 1756 and if the baptism is a day or two after the birth, that location listed for the sponsor (which may be difficult to read) has to be relatively close to the&nbsp;location of the baptism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcribing foreign language records can be difficult. Comparing a record to others in the same series to see which text is repeated is one helpful approach. Using words common to a record is another way to work out how&nbsp;a writer usually wrote certain letters or words. Determining place names mentioned in records is sometimes difficult.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}