{"id":5177,"date":"2016-08-02T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2016-08-02T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:12:42","slug":"begin-with-the-prefatory-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/02\/begin-with-the-prefatory-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Begin With the Prefatory Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always know what you are searching whether you are searching an online database or a printed book.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Restored&#8221; marriage records shown in the image are from a variety of local sources. They are referred to as &#8220;Restored&#8221; because the original records from the county were destroyed in a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Always read the preface or any introductory material in order to determine exactly what you are searching or using. That&#8217;s the only way you will know whether that next book on the shelf is something you need to use or not.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/restoredmarriages.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5178\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/restoredmarriages.jpg\" alt=\"restoredmarriages\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/restoredmarriages.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/restoredmarriages-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always know what you are searching whether you are searching an online database or a printed book. The &#8220;Restored&#8221; marriage records shown in the image are from a variety of local sources. They are referred to as &#8220;Restored&#8221; because the original records from the county were destroyed in a fire. Always read the preface or [&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-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","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=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}