{"id":24202,"date":"2025-02-11T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24202"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:38:54","slug":"when-the-source-is-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/when-the-source-is-new\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Source Is New"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When using a record or source that is new to you, here are some things to think about to make&nbsp;the best use of it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What time period does the record cover?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What was the purpose of the record?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How did someone or something \u201cget in\u201d the record?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How were the records originally organized and stored?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If there is an index, is it a full-name index?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are there terms in the record that I don\u2019t understand?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other questions to ask about the record as you analyze the information it contains, but the answers to these questions will hopefully make your search easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using a record or source that is new to you, here are some things to think about to make&nbsp;the best use of it: There are other questions to ask about the record as you analyze the information it contains, but the answers to these questions will hopefully make your search easier.<\/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-24202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202","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=24202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}