{"id":9246,"date":"2018-11-25T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9246"},"modified":"2018-11-25T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T17:50:26","slug":"preserve-it-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/25\/preserve-it-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserve It Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4028\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4028\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4028\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mjn-mom-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mjn-mom-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mjn-mom-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/mjn-mom.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The guy behind Genealogy Tip of the Day with his mother and an unidentified teddy bear.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One never knows when life will change in an instant. Have you preserved or shared pictures and images of items you have that cannot be replaced? Don&#8217;t wait. A sudden illness, natural disaster, or other event can alter your plans for &#8220;doing it later.&#8221; Make certain others have digital copies of items you have. Initially focus on those items that are unique&#8211;letters, pictures, etc.<\/p>\n<p>You can wait to make copies of census records and other items that are probably elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>But that wedding book that has signatures of relatives? That scrapbook that has one-of-a-kind pictures? Those are the things you need to focus on initially.<\/p>\n<p>Life has a way of happening and those left behind may not have the interest in the things that you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One never knows when life will change in an instant. Have you preserved or shared pictures and images of items you have that cannot be replaced? Don&#8217;t wait. A sudden illness, natural disaster, or other event can alter your plans for &#8220;doing it later.&#8221; Make certain others have digital copies of items you have. Initially [&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-9246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246","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=9246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}