{"id":8147,"date":"2018-03-21T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2018-03-21T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:44:43","slug":"sort-court-papers-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/21\/sort-court-papers-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Sort Court Papers First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court and probate papers often are not in chronological order when the genealogist gets them. Before analyzing the materials, put them in chronological order first. Use the dates the documents were executed for this sorting, not the dates they were filed or recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Sorting them will make it easier to see the flow of activity.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8148\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/court-papers-ordering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/court-papers-ordering.jpg 800w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/court-papers-ordering-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/court-papers-ordering-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/court-papers-ordering-624x390.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>\u00a0is proudly sponsored by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1803GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank<\/em><\/a>. They are offering our fans\/followers\/readers a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1803GT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscription that is $4.67 a month (billed annually)<\/a>. Thanks for their support\u2013and yours too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court and probate papers often are not in chronological order when the genealogist gets them. Before analyzing the materials, put them in chronological order first. Use the dates the documents were executed for this sorting, not the dates they were filed or recorded. Sorting them will make it easier to see the flow of activity. [&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-8147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147","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=8147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}