{"id":9591,"date":"2019-02-06T10:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2019-02-06T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T01:03:19","slug":"when-using-that-courthouse-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/when-using-that-courthouse-index\/","title":{"rendered":"When Using that Courthouse Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4119\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse-624x392.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/courthouse.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/>Courthouse indexes were created before computers, databases, and digitization of records. As a result those indexes may be different from more modern ones that a person used to. A few things worth remembering when using courthouse indexes to records:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indexes to courthouse records are not always strictly alphabetical. Sometimes they are indexed only the first letter of the last name.<\/li>\n<li>Some indexes are partially by last name and then by first name.<\/li>\n<li>Some clerks created their own indexing system.<\/li>\n<li>The Mc and Mac names can be at the front or the end of the &#8220;M&#8221; section.<\/li>\n<li>Not every party in a lawsuit appears in the defendant or plaintiff index.<\/li>\n<li>Not every grantor or grantee on a deed will appear in the index.<\/li>\n<li>Indexes are not every name indexes.<\/li>\n<li>Indexes can be incorrect or missing.<\/li>\n<li>Courthouses may have indexes to records that were not filmed by the Family History Library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A good idea is to ask a local person from the area who is familiar with the records. These people can be an excellent resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courthouse indexes were created before computers, databases, and digitization of records. As a result those indexes may be different from more modern ones that a person used to. A few things worth remembering when using courthouse indexes to records: Indexes to courthouse records are not always strictly alphabetical. Sometimes they are indexed only the first [&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-9591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591","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=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}