{"id":7778,"date":"2018-01-03T10:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2018-01-03T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:18:08","slug":"years-can-easily-be-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/years-can-easily-be-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Years Can Easily Be Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This World War I draft card for Malerbi Alighiero indicated he was born in 1916. It&#8217;s clearly an error on the part of the registrant. It&#8217;s easy for a clerk (or anyone else) to make an error such as this. Transcribe the document as written and use the word &#8220;sic&#8221; to indicate that there is clearly an error:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The card for Alighiero indicated he was born in 1916[sic]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That way someone knows you did not make a transcription error.<\/p>\n<p>And if you think a World War I draft registrant could have been born in 1916, a review of world history is in order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7780\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/year-of-birth-off.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/year-of-birth-off.jpg 747w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/year-of-birth-off-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/year-of-birth-off-624x346.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This World War I draft card for Malerbi Alighiero indicated he was born in 1916. It&#8217;s clearly an error on the part of the registrant. It&#8217;s easy for a clerk (or anyone else) to make an error such as this. Transcribe the document as written and use the word &#8220;sic&#8221; to indicate that there is [&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-7778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778","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=7778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}