{"id":6340,"date":"2017-03-22T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2019-05-27T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:25:57","slug":"transcription-or-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/22\/transcription-or-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcription or Original?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transcriptions are not necessarily unreliable, but one needs to be aware if one is using the original record or a transcription of it. These town records from Marlborough, New Hampshire are actually transcriptions of the original records. The &#8220;first page&#8221; of the book indicates that it is a copy and the handwriting is too consistent throughout the volume to have been done contemporaneously. Transcriptions can always contain errors&#8211;after all, transcriptionists are human.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6341\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transcriptionororiginal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"913\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transcriptionororiginal.jpg 913w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transcriptionororiginal-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transcriptionororiginal-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transcriptionororiginal-624x323.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It may not be possible to get the original and it&#8217;s not always necessary. But it&#8217;s always worth knowing what you are using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcriptions are not necessarily unreliable, but one needs to be aware if one is using the original record or a transcription of it. These town records from Marlborough, New Hampshire are actually transcriptions of the original records. The &#8220;first page&#8221; of the book indicates that it is a copy and the handwriting is too consistent [&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-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340","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=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}