{"id":25850,"date":"2025-06-04T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25850"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:34:40","slug":"always-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/always-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first worked on my children\u2019s Belgian ancestors years ago. When using the vital records from the 19th century, I used them the way I had other European records from the same time span. I looked in the \u201cbook\u201d for and read through the entries for the years I thought included the person\u2019s birth date. Then, if I had the correct person and had the names of the parents, I scanned the years before and after the birth to locate siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine my surprise when I found indexes interspersed in the records. I had never encountered those before. While indexes are not perfect, they would have saved me a great deal of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moral-the first time you use any \u201cnew\u201d record, familiarize yourself with the whole thing first, don\u2019t assume that it is like every other one you have ever used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first worked on my children\u2019s Belgian ancestors years ago. When using the vital records from the 19th century, I used them the way I had other European records from the same time span. I looked in the \u201cbook\u201d for and read through the entries for the years I thought included the person\u2019s birth date. [&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-25850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25850","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=25850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}