{"id":8040,"date":"2018-02-28T17:53:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2018-02-28T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:58:26","slug":"know-what-you-are-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/know-what-you-are-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Know What You Are Searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An announcement about digital images of <a href=\"http:\/\/publications.newberry.org\/digital\/stopp-certificates\/index\">German baptismal certificates at the Newberry Library in Chicago<\/a> flew across my screen and I immediately decided to search them. Looking at the catalog entry first is advised&#8211;the vast majority of these items are apparently from Pennsylvania&#8211;according to their catalog entry.<\/p>\n<p>Always know what you are searching&#8211;don&#8217;t assume the collection contains material that it does not. Just because this collection is housed in Chicago, Illinois, does not mean that it contains only Illinois materials&#8211;or any Illinois materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publications.newberry.org\/digital\/stopp-certificates\/index\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8041 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/newberry-german-pennsylvania.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/newberry-german-pennsylvania.jpg 796w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/newberry-german-pennsylvania-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/newberry-german-pennsylvania-768x685.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/newberry-german-pennsylvania-624x557.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An announcement about digital images of German baptismal certificates at the Newberry Library in Chicago flew across my screen and I immediately decided to search them. Looking at the catalog entry first is advised&#8211;the vast majority of these items are apparently from Pennsylvania&#8211;according to their catalog entry. Always know what you are searching&#8211;don&#8217;t assume the [&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-8040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040","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=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}