{"id":21592,"date":"2024-10-20T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=21592"},"modified":"2024-10-20T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:48:13","slug":"any-arrest-could-be-in-the-newspaper-and-search-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/20\/any-arrest-could-be-in-the-newspaper-and-search-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Arrest Could be in the Newspaper and Search Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Discovered a relative was arrested on assault charges in 1917. The court records I could find online only indicated the arrest. The verdict could not be located. I need to see if there are more records in the jurisdiction where the arrest took place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to perform a newspaper search and did find where he paid a rather steep fine&#8211;at least by 1918 standards&#8211;for the crime. Whenever I discover someone has been arrested, I always search newspapers to see what can be found. I did not perform a manual search for the week he was arrested, which I need to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, I still need to manually search the court records to see what I overlooked. I also need to manually search the newspapers as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why our research log needs to indicate specifically what we searched and how. Searches via full-text databases of records can locate material that would have been tedious to find before, but we need to indicate how we searched the records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A digital search of a full-text database is not the same as manually searching records. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered a relative was arrested on assault charges in 1917. The court records I could find online only indicated the arrest. The verdict could not be located. I need to see if there are more records in the jurisdiction where the arrest took place. I decided to perform a newspaper search and did find where [&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-21592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592","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=21592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}