{"id":6864,"date":"2017-06-30T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2017-07-01T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T15:05:15","slug":"call-before-you-make-the-trip-to-the-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/30\/call-before-you-make-the-trip-to-the-courthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Before You Make the Trip to the Courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3733\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3733\" class=\"wp-image-3733 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/courthouse-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/courthouse-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/courthouse.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is not the courthouse that&#8217;s discussed in the tip. This illustration is used because I like it \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I made something of a last minute trip to a courthouse about 100 miles from where I live so that I could obtain a copy of a marriage record. The website for the office indicated they had the records for the time I needed and what the fees were.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived, they told me that all requests for genealogical records were handled by volunteers who answered them by mail. \u00a0I could not get the record that day. I filled out the form. I paid the fee and I left.<\/p>\n<p>Always call and find out research policies before you make a trip. That&#8217;s true whether the trip if 10 miles, 100 miles, or 1,000. \u00a0It&#8217;s especially true if it is 1,000.<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>\u00a0is proudly sponsored by\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank.\u00a0<\/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>I made something of a last minute trip to a courthouse about 100 miles from where I live so that I could obtain a copy of a marriage record. The website for the office indicated they had the records for the time I needed and what the fees were. When I arrived, they told me [&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-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","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=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}