{"id":6042,"date":"2017-01-16T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2017-01-16T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T22:07:34","slug":"winning-over-the-record-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/16\/winning-over-the-record-clerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Over the Record Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there are no guarantees, there are some things a researcher can do when at the courthouse or records office to maximize the chance you are successful locating the desired records:<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/riley-book.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6043 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/riley-book-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"riley-book\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/riley-book-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/riley-book.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be polite<\/li>\n<li>know the hours of operation<\/li>\n<li>know what records they have (or at least a general idea)<\/li>\n<li>have your information organized and handy so you aren&#8217;t rummaging through papers or your phone to gets dates, names, and places)<\/li>\n<li>find out their cell phone use policy<\/li>\n<li>look relatively professional (flip flops, belly shirts, and the like should be avoided)<\/li>\n<li>thank them for their help&#8211;even if you think they weren&#8217;t that helpful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there are no guarantees, there are some things a researcher can do when at the courthouse or records office to maximize the chance you are successful locating the desired records: be polite know the hours of operation know what records they have (or at least a general idea) have your information organized and handy [&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-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","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=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}