{"id":2543,"date":"2010-02-26T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/26\/check-around-before-buying-a-copy-of-any-record"},"modified":"2010-02-26T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:03:00","slug":"check-around-before-buying-a-copy-of-any-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/26\/check-around-before-buying-a-copy-of-any-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Around Before Buying a Copy of Any Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always pays to check around before buying a copy of any record. Generally speaking, try sources in the following order:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Family History Library<\/li>\n<li>State or Regional Archives<\/li>\n<li>Local, County, or State Record Office directly&#8211;start by looking here <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:20px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/w2w.htm\" style=\"color:rgb(204,102,0);text-decoration:underline;\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/w2w.htm<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Post a query to the appropriate message board at boards.ancestry.com or lists.rootsweb.com and inquire about records access and prices<\/li>\n<li>Never pay for immediate, overnight, or any speedy service. <\/li>\n<li>Considering hiring a local professional if you need a large number and can&#8217;t get them via mail. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>This is mean to be general guidance only, but avoid paying exorbitant fees for &#8220;extra&#8221; services if at all possible. This is why if you are unfamiliar, post to various mailing lists and message boards and wait for an answer. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always pays to check around before buying a copy of any record. Generally speaking, try sources in the following order: Family History Library State or Regional Archives Local, County, or State Record Office directly&#8211;start by looking here http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/w2w.htm Post a query to the appropriate message board at boards.ancestry.com or lists.rootsweb.com and inquire about records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","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\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}