{"id":6893,"date":"2017-07-03T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2017-07-03T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T16:22:36","slug":"the-power-of-browsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/03\/the-power-of-browsing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Browsing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Browsing takes time, but can lead to discoveries. Try and avoid just reading the specific item of interest. Indexes are wonderful, but sometimes being taken “right to the record” causes us to miss other potential items of interest. In handwritten court documents many names may not be indexed.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Hawkins witnessed a will recorded on the same page as his wife’s step-father’s estate inventory. It is a coincidence, but knowing additional associates of Benjamin is helpful, no matter how they were discovered.
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Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>\u00a0is proudly sponsored by\u00a0GenealogyBank.\u00a0<\/em>Try their \u201cGenealogyBank Search<\/a>\u201d and see what discoveries you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Browsing takes time, but can lead to discoveries. Try and avoid just reading the specific item of interest. Indexes are wonderful, but sometimes being taken “right to the record” causes us to miss other potential items of interest. In handwritten court documents many names may not be indexed. Benjamin Hawkins witnessed a will recorded on […]<\/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-6893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893","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=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}