{"id":4157,"date":"2016-01-09T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:10:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T16:10:01","slug":"certified-copies-may-not-be-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/09\/certified-copies-may-not-be-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Certified Copies May Not Be Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a certified copy of my birth record from the county in which I was born. It is signed by an official in the county recorder&#8217;s office and has the county seal affixed. It &#8220;certifies&#8221; that there is a record of my birth (with the date and name of my parents) contained within the birth records of the county. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>It is not an actual reproduction of my actual birth record. It does not include all the information from my actual birth record. <\/p>\n<p>Certifications are created to &#8220;certify&#8221; that the record exists. They are usually sufficient for situations where it is simply necessary to prove the event took place and was recorded. Genealogists usually need a reproduction of the actual record. That makes certain all the information from the original record has been reproduced and that words or names have not been transcribed incorrectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a certified copy of my birth record from the county in which I was born. It is signed by an official in the county recorder&#8217;s office and has the county seal affixed. It &#8220;certifies&#8221; that there is a record of my birth (with the date and name of my parents) contained within the [&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-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","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=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}