{"id":3924,"date":"2015-12-04T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:24:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:24:04","slug":"whats-in-the-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/04\/whats-in-the-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in the Margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When transcribing old documents make certain that what is in the margin of the document as an annotation does not become part of the text of the document itself. This 1742 deed from Massachusetts has several annotations&#8211;these are made for the clerks and others using the records. They are not a part of the actual document. A transcription of these items should indicate that they were in the margin of the document. Including them right in the text may create confusion. <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/margins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3925 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/margins-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"margins\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/margins-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/margins-660x485.jpg 660w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/margins.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When transcribing old documents make certain that what is in the margin of the document as an annotation does not become part of the text of the document itself. This 1742 deed from Massachusetts has several annotations&#8211;these are made for the clerks and others using the records. They are not a part of the actual [&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-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","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=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}