{"id":24420,"date":"2025-02-27T09:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24420"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:44:50","slug":"24420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/24420\/","title":{"rendered":"How Is It Different?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is always advised to compare a record of your ancestor to others in the same series of records. How does the amount of detail compare? If the document is a death certificate, is it filed in the same time frame after the death as the others? If it is a handwritten baptismal entry is there something about it that is different from others? Whenever you are confused about a document, look at similar ones to get a reference point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phone-how-different.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phone-how-different.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phone-how-different.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phone-how-different-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t know what\u2019s unusual if you don\u2019t know what other ones look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like this phone from my childhood. It sat on top of a box of toys in my Grandparents\u2019 home for years. I thought they came with a red O. They don\u2019t. Grandma painted it that way so I\u2019d quit hitting it and getting mad when the operator popped out. The phone was different from others and there was a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The differences in records are a little more important than trying to stop a two-year old from hitting the button on a red phone. Or maybe they aren\u2019t any more important, But they are clues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here and it\u2019s not written to help you research your \u201cfamous ancestors.\u201d It\u2019s written to help with all of them.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always advised to compare a record of your ancestor to others in the same series of records. How does the amount of detail compare? If the document is a death certificate, is it filed in the same time frame after the death as the others? If it is a handwritten baptismal entry is [&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-24420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420","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=24420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}