{"id":7181,"date":"2017-09-08T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2017-09-08T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:39:35","slug":"mapping-it-out-in-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/mapping-it-out-in-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping it out in Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7182\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/11081221_10153259821179379_565184981834534332_n-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/11081221_10153259821179379_565184981834534332_n-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/11081221_10153259821179379_565184981834534332_n-624x473.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/11081221_10153259821179379_565184981834534332_n.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sometimes it is simply faster to mark up a map with what you know&#8211;especially when people of the same name are moving around and appearing in a variety of records.<\/p>\n<p>Failing to acknowledge geography can cause problems.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes it is simply faster to notate in pencil as you are thinking. There will always be time later to make a neat copy if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes making a neat copy slows me down and I lose my train of thought.<\/p>\n<p>I always have blank copies of maps on paper so I can start taking notes &#8220;geographically&#8221; when necessary.<\/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>Sometimes it is simply faster to mark up a map with what you know&#8211;especially when people of the same name are moving around and appearing in a variety of records. Failing to acknowledge geography can cause problems. And sometimes it is simply faster to notate in pencil as you are thinking. There will always be [&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-7181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181","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=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}