{"id":3074,"date":"2015-06-30T14:50:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2015-06-30T14:50:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:50:40","slug":"i-track-sources-for-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/30\/i-track-sources-for-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"I Track Sources for Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s one reason I track the source of where I obtained a genealogical record: myself. Today I was looking at a digital image I had of a record. Because I sourced it, I knew that I had made the digital image from a copy of the microfilm at the Family History Library. That&#8217;s different from a scan I might make of a photocopy I made\u00a0at the courthouse years ago, different from a scan I made of a paper copy\u00a0I\u00a0made from a microfilm printout, and different also from a picture I may take of the actual record.<\/p>\n<p>All of these have differing levels of detail from the document. \u00a0If I don&#8217;t know where I got it, it makes it difficult for me to assess years later whether it might be worth getting a copy of the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s one reason I track the source of where I obtained a genealogical record: myself. Today I was looking at a digital image I had of a record. Because I sourced it, I knew that I had made the digital image from a copy of the microfilm at the Family History Library. That&#8217;s different from [&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-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","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=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}