{"id":9030,"date":"2018-10-08T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:36:11","slug":"did-the-courthouse-already-transcribe-your-document-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/08\/did-the-courthouse-already-transcribe-your-document-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Courthouse Already Transcribe Your Document?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8326\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/will-record-300x95.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/will-record-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/will-record-768x243.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/will-record-1024x324.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/will-record-624x198.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/will-record.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/>Don&#8217;t forget if you have found that will in the packet of probate papers for your ancestor that there might be a &#8220;will record&#8221; contained with the probate records as well. Not all jurisdictions kept these records, but many did. If the handwritten original will has a difficult to read portion, is partially missing, or is open to interpretation, the transcription in the &#8220;will record,&#8221; done at the time the will was proved, may answer your questions.<\/p>\n<p>These record copies were the legal equivalent of the original document and were made, theoretically, in an attempt to render the original as closely as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t forget if you have found that will in the packet of probate papers for your ancestor that there might be a &#8220;will record&#8221; contained with the probate records as well. Not all jurisdictions kept these records, but many did. If the handwritten original will has a difficult to read portion, is partially missing, or [&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-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030","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=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}