{"id":6883,"date":"2017-07-02T08:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2017-07-02T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T17:04:40","slug":"local-indexes-arent-all-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/02\/local-indexes-arent-all-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Indexes Aren&#8217;t All the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6884 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/index-how-made-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/index-how-made-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/index-how-made-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/index-how-made-624x462.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/index-how-made.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Local indexes to property, court, and other records can be set up differently from one location to another. \u00a0Take some time to study any index when working in a new area. The index may be just by first initial of last name&#8211;with first names not sorted.<\/p>\n<p>The index may be by first initial and last initial.<\/p>\n<p>it may be by first two letters of last name.<\/p>\n<p>Or something slightly different. Failing to learn how the index is created may cause you to fail to locate the desired entry in the records.<\/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>Local indexes to property, court, and other records can be set up differently from one location to another. \u00a0Take some time to study any index when working in a new area. The index may be just by first initial of last name&#8211;with first names not sorted. The index may be by first initial and last [&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-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","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=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}