{"id":4942,"date":"2016-06-10T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T23:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2016-06-10T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T23:28:54","slug":"context-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/10\/context-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Context Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It helps to be familiar with the families involved when transcribing paper records, tombstones, etc. \u00a0The probable grave of Herman Sartorius in Adams County, Illinois&#8217; South Prairie Cemetery was easier to identify given that it was next to Sartorius&#8217; in-laws Ulfert and Fredericka (Lichtsinn) Behrens.<\/p>\n<p>Had I been merely been transcribing stones out of context, I probably would not have realized the stone was probably that of Sartorius.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/behrens-south-prairie.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4943\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4943\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/behrens-south-prairie.jpg\" alt=\"behrens-south-prairie\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/behrens-south-prairie.jpg 960w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/behrens-south-prairie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/behrens-south-prairie-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/behrens-south-prairie-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It helps to be familiar with the families involved when transcribing paper records, tombstones, etc. \u00a0The probable grave of Herman Sartorius in Adams County, Illinois&#8217; South Prairie Cemetery was easier to identify given that it was next to Sartorius&#8217; in-laws Ulfert and Fredericka (Lichtsinn) Behrens. Had I been merely been transcribing stones out of context, [&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-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","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=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}