{"id":23376,"date":"2024-12-23T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=23376"},"modified":"2024-12-24T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:07:13","slug":"how-is-it-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/how-is-it-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"How Is It Organized?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When using a record series, do you think about how the originals were recorded and organized? It\u2019s usually worth a thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vital records are usually recorded by file date, not necessarily the date of the event.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Land records are organized by date the document was brought for recording, not the date the document was executed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Baptism records are organized by date of baptism, not birth date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Census records are organized geographically\u2013with the amount of precision varying over time and from one place to another. Names may be organized in order of visit or roughly alphabetized.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Loose probate papers are organized by probate case and those case files are generally organized by a case number\u2013which may have been assigned based upon when the probate process was begun.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And there are always exceptions and locations that seemingly invent their own system. Be flexible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using a record series, do you think about how the originals were recorded and organized? It\u2019s usually worth a thought:<\/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-23376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23376","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=23376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}