{"id":8754,"date":"2018-08-02T09:19:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8754"},"modified":"2018-08-01T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:22:37","slug":"mapping-it-out-in-pencil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/02\/mapping-it-out-in-pencil-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping it out in Pencil"},"content":{"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.<\/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.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8755 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11081221_10153259821179379_565184981834534332_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11081221_10153259821179379_565184981834534332_n-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11081221_10153259821179379_565184981834534332_n-1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11081221_10153259821179379_565184981834534332_n-1-624x473.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/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-8754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754","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=8754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}