{"id":7879,"date":"2018-01-24T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2018-01-24T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:31:16","slug":"theres-not-just-one-index-to-court-records-usually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/theres-not-just-one-index-to-court-records-usually\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Not Just One Index to Court Records&#8211;Usually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3733\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/courthouse-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"128\" 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: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/>Local (county) court records usually have indexes that are seemingly limited in their scope.\u00a0 Usually there is a plaintiffs&#8217; index and a defendants&#8217; index and those indexes usually only index the first named plaintiff in each case and the first name defendant in each case.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why it is important to search for all family members in these indexes.<\/p>\n<p>Another key factor\u00a0for the genealogist to be aware of is how many courts the county had during the time period of interest. Counties <em>may have<\/em> had more than one court&#8211;typically one court that heard equity or chancery cases and\u00a0one that heard &#8220;law&#8221; cases. At the risk of oversimplifying, equity or chancery cases were those where parties could not agree amongst themselves and they were asking the court to reach an equitable decision for them. &#8220;Law&#8221; cases\u00a0involved a violation of the &#8220;law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local (county) court records usually have indexes that are seemingly limited in their scope.\u00a0 Usually there is a plaintiffs&#8217; index and a defendants&#8217; index and those indexes usually only index the first named plaintiff in each case and the first name defendant in each case. That&#8217;s why it is important to search for all family [&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-7879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879","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=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}