{"id":28811,"date":"2025-08-25T11:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=28811"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:10:46","slug":"only-the-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/only-the-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Only the Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A transcription of a tombstone should only include what is on the tombstone. That\u2019s what makes it a transcription. Any parenthetical information preferably needs to be entirely separate from the transcription itself and clearly indicated as material that is not on the stone. Brackets should be used to indicate there\u2019s a portion you cannot read or a part of the transcription at which you are guessing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/belinda-stone-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Tombstone of Belinda Newman, Dunkard Cemetery, Linn County, Iowa. \n\" class=\"wp-image-28818\" style=\"width:439px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/belinda-stone-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/belinda-stone-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/belinda-stone-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/belinda-stone-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/belinda-stone-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Stone pictured is that of Belinda Newman in the Dunkard Cemetery in Linn County, Iowa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/fully-utilizing-full-text-search-a-new-approach\/\">Save 50% on our new full-text search webinar&#8211;with extensive handout\/workbook included<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transcription of a tombstone should only include what is on the tombstone. That\u2019s what makes it a transcription. Any parenthetical information preferably needs to be entirely separate from the transcription itself and clearly indicated as material that is not on the stone. Brackets should be used to indicate there\u2019s a portion you cannot read [&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-28811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28811","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=28811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}