{"id":9263,"date":"2018-11-29T08:47:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2018-11-29T08:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T14:47:52","slug":"transcribe-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/transcribe-in-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcribe in Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first the location on this military discharge stymied me. Then I looked at the date and it made perfect sense. A US military discharge in 1847 could easily have been done in Mexico. A little geographic searching determined the town was Comargo.<\/p>\n<p>Always transcribe a document in context&#8211;it helps.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9264\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1379\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico.jpg 1379w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/location-mexico-1024x520.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1379px) 100vw, 1379px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first the location on this military discharge stymied me. Then I looked at the date and it made perfect sense. A US military discharge in 1847 could easily have been done in Mexico. A little geographic searching determined the town was Comargo. Always transcribe a document in context&#8211;it helps.<\/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-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}