{"id":5563,"date":"2016-10-05T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2016-10-05T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:46:14","slug":"is-it-a-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/05\/is-it-a-transcription\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It A Transcription?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was using a book of marriage records from the 1840s in Ohio recently. The handwriting was consistent from page to page and from year to year. It turns out I was using a transcription of the original marriage ledger that had been made by the clerk some years after the original records were made. Transcriptions are not bad, but I did see if they had the original (they did) so that I could see the actual handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes transcriptionists make errors&#8211;so you need to check them.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes transcriptions transcribe things when the writing is still legible and they could read it. That might not be true today.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t disregard transcribed copies of records.<\/p>\n<p>Just make certain to know what you are using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was using a book of marriage records from the 1840s in Ohio recently. The handwriting was consistent from page to page and from year to year. It turns out I was using a transcription of the original marriage ledger that had been made by the clerk some years after the original records were made. [&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-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","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=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}