{"id":4629,"date":"2016-04-07T07:07:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2016-04-07T00:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T05:11:32","slug":"the-courthouse-will-still-be-there-will-grandma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/07\/the-courthouse-will-still-be-there-will-grandma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Courthouse Will Still Be There: Will Grandma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4119\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4119 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"courthouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-624x392.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While it&#8217;s always fun to make a genealogical research trip to a courthouse and search through old records, remember that the most fragile genealogical source available is someone&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<p>If, as the saying goes &#8220;Lord willing and the creek don&#8217;t rise,&#8221; the courthouse will still be around in a week. Great aunt Myrtle might not. The human mind can be extremely fragile and is a repository that often can&#8217;t be replicated elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t neglect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s always fun to make a genealogical research trip to a courthouse and search through old records, remember that the most fragile genealogical source available is someone&#8217;s mind. If, as the saying goes &#8220;Lord willing and the creek don&#8217;t rise,&#8221; the courthouse will still be around in a week. Great aunt Myrtle might not. [&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-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","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=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}