{"id":20822,"date":"2024-08-13T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20822"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:25:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:25:58","slug":"transcribing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/transcribing\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcribing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/transcribing-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/transcribing-1-1024x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/transcribing-1-1024x359.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/transcribing-1-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/transcribing-1-768x269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/transcribing-1-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/transcribing-1.jpg 1804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Transcribing records in a foreign language and an unfamiliar script can be a challenge. Both differences work together to make interpreting the records correctly more difficult. There are some things you can do to improve your transcription of older records in a foreign language and an unfamiliar script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Become familiar with basic genealogy words in the language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Become familiar with the script you are reading.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy the entire page of entries&#8211;so you have context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work with more recent records to get better at words and phrases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See how record differs from others on the same page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And&#8230;be patient with yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/upcoming-trips\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"17886\">Check out Michael&#8217;s books!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcribing records in a foreign language and an unfamiliar script can be a challenge. Both differences work together to make interpreting the records correctly more difficult. There are some things you can do to improve your transcription of older records in a foreign language and an unfamiliar script: And&#8230;be patient with yourself. Check out Michael&#8217;s [&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-20822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20822","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=20822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}