{"id":5812,"date":"2016-12-01T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:27:30","slug":"indexes-are-finding-aids-not-the-final-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/01\/indexes-are-finding-aids-not-the-final-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indexes are Finding Aids-Not the Final Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you find an index entry for a record or a transcription of a record, view the actual item. Transcribers and indexers make mistakes, leave items out, etc.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned this before, but it is worth repeating. <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3684\">This post on the German parish records at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> makes the point pretty well.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you find an index entry for a record or a transcription of a record, view the actual item. Transcribers and indexers make mistakes, leave items out, etc. We&#8217;ve mentioned this before, but it is worth repeating. This post on the German parish records at\u00a0Ancestry.com makes the point pretty well.\u00a0<\/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-5812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812","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=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}