{"id":5317,"date":"2016-08-25T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2016-08-25T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:30:59","slug":"its-just-an-index-card-theres-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/25\/its-just-an-index-card-theres-more\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Just An Index Card&#8211;There&#8217;s More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/butler-index-card.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5318 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/butler-index-card.jpg\" alt=\"butler-index-card\" width=\"276\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/butler-index-card.jpg 276w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/butler-index-card-127x300.jpg 127w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>Familiarity with records is crucial to genealogical research. One can&#8217;t just take what they&#8217;ve found online and leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers should always be asking if there is &#8220;more&#8221; to the record than what they have found\u00a0or if the record they have found means that other separate records may have been created.<\/p>\n<p>This is the General Index Card to compiled military service records for Leander Butler who served in Companies I and B of the 10th Kansas Infantry in the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already got a copy of his pension (that&#8217;s a separate record), but his compiled military service record (which this card is just a part of an index to) may tell me more about his military career and may provide clues about his enlistment.<\/p>\n<p>And since I&#8217;m stuck on what his family was doing in the 1850s and 1860s that information may be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Many records we use are actually indexes to other records. One should never stop at the index&#8211;even if you didn&#8217;t know it was just an index when you were searching it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Familiarity with records is crucial to genealogical research. One can&#8217;t just take what they&#8217;ve found online and leave it at that. Researchers should always be asking if there is &#8220;more&#8221; to the record than what they have found\u00a0or if the record they have found means that other separate records may have been created. This is [&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-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","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=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}