{"id":9930,"date":"2019-04-19T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T20:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2019-04-19T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T20:09:48","slug":"was-it-transcribed-by-a-quicker-typer-upper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/19\/was-it-transcribed-by-a-quicker-typer-upper\/","title":{"rendered":"Was It Transcribed by a Quicker-Typer-Upper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9931\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/david-newman-titlepage-pension.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/david-newman-titlepage-pension.jpg 900w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/david-newman-titlepage-pension-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/david-newman-titlepage-pension-768x248.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>Sometimes it is a wonder anything gets indexed correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Things are easier to read when you know what they are. When I &#8220;see&#8221; it the first name of the Civil War veteran listed on this coversheet to his pension file is easy to read. But if I were reading it cold. In this case, even the last name of Newman could be transcribed incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>When you are using a &#8220;typed-up&#8221; index always keep in mind what the typer-upper might have been seeing.<\/p>\n<p>And if the typer-upper is a really &#8220;quicker typer upper,&#8221; the chance of an error is even greater.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/\">Check out the books on Michael&#8217;s genealogy shelf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is a wonder anything gets indexed correctly. Things are easier to read when you know what they are. When I &#8220;see&#8221; it the first name of the Civil War veteran listed on this coversheet to his pension file is easy to read. But if I were reading it cold. In this case, even [&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-9930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930","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=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}