{"id":5511,"date":"2016-09-25T08:54:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2016-09-26T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T05:00:43","slug":"transcribe-as-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/25\/transcribe-as-written\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcribe As Written"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always transcribe documents as written, making comments about accuracy outside the transcription. This 1921 court document indicated that a brother-in-law of the deceased was a sister of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>It should be transcribed as &#8220;&#8230;brothers, and Minka Hobben[<em>sic<\/em>], Heipke Schone, &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The record should not be corrected when the transcription is made. After the transcription is complete a notation that &#8220;&#8216;Minka Hobben&#8217; is likely meant to refer to Tjode Habben, who was Mrs. Mimka Habben&#8211;oldest sister&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Avoid the temptation to correct the document when making your transcription.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/transcribeaswritten.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5512 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/transcribeaswritten-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"transcribeaswritten\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/transcribeaswritten-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/transcribeaswritten.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always transcribe documents as written, making comments about accuracy outside the transcription. This 1921 court document indicated that a brother-in-law of the deceased was a sister of the deceased. It should be transcribed as &#8220;&#8230;brothers, and Minka Hobben[sic], Heipke Schone, &#8230;&#8221; The record should not be corrected when the transcription is made. After the transcription [&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-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","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=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}