{"id":6733,"date":"2017-06-03T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2017-06-03T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T21:53:48","slug":"before-you-visit-the-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/03\/before-you-visit-the-courthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Visit the Courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before making a trip to a courthouse (or any recor<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4119\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-624x392.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ds facility), plan ahead and find out the following things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>days\/time of operation<\/li>\n<li>copy charges and policies<\/li>\n<li>can cameras and cell phones be used in the facility?<\/li>\n<li>what about laptops or other electronic devices?<\/li>\n<li>what <em><strong>can<\/strong> <\/em>be taken in the facility (paper and pencil only, no personal items, etc.)?<\/li>\n<li>are any records closed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If all you &#8220;information&#8221; needed to look up things is in your phone and you cannot take it in, that&#8217;s something you need to know beforehand.<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank. <\/em>Try their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before making a trip to a courthouse (or any records facility), plan ahead and find out the following things: days\/time of operation copy charges and policies can cameras and cell phones be used in the facility? what about laptops or other electronic devices? what can be taken in the facility (paper and pencil only, no [&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-6733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733","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=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}