{"id":4531,"date":"2016-03-16T23:17:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T04:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2016-03-16T23:17:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T04:17:58","slug":"photograph-the-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/16\/photograph-the-spine\/","title":{"rendered":"Photograph the Spine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bookforbarbara-115x300-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3510\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3510 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/bookforbarbara-115x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"bookforbarbara-115x300 (1)\" width=\"115\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Citations are always important in genealogical research, but they can be problematic with ledgers and bound courthouse materials. Courthouse record books are usually not considered &#8220;published&#8221; and titles can sometimes be difficult to obtain after one has left. One good way to get that &#8220;title&#8221; is to take a picture of the spine or the cover of the book as that&#8217;s often where the title is written.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m making copies from several books, I always take a picture of the spine and cover first, then make copies of specific pages. That way the time stamp on the images helps me know what came from what.<\/p>\n<p>But ask before taking pictures from record books as some courthouses do not allow it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citations are always important in genealogical research, but they can be problematic with ledgers and bound courthouse materials. Courthouse record books are usually not considered &#8220;published&#8221; and titles can sometimes be difficult to obtain after one has left. One good way to get that &#8220;title&#8221; is to take a picture of the spine or 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-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","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=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}