{"id":32798,"date":"2026-04-17T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32798"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:16:14","slug":"registers-versus-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/registers-versus-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Registers versus Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In locations that have birth certificates and birth registers, it is necessary to look at both. Determine what the \u201cchain of creation\u201d was. Usually the certificates were the \u201coriginal document\u201d and information in the register contains a transcription of what was on the original certificate. There\u2019s always the possibility that the register contains a transcription error. But there\u2019s also the possibility that the register\u2019s entry is easier to read than the certificate or contains an additional comment made by the clerk and is not on the certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s important to read both and to know how they were created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/harm-hobbin-768x444.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In locations that have birth certificates and birth registers, it is necessary to look at both. Determine what the \u201cchain of creation\u201d was. Usually the certificates were the \u201coriginal document\u201d and information in the register contains a transcription of what was on the original certificate. There\u2019s always the possibility that the register contains a transcription [&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-32798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32798","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=32798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}