{"id":1313,"date":"2015-10-28T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:41:07","slug":"does-it-matter-if-you-remove-the-blank-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Does It Matter If You Remove the Blank Space?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The image accompanying this post is one I plan on using in an upcoming post on the records from the\u00a0\u201cEast Frisia, Germany, Fire Insurance Registration, 1768-1937<\/a>\u201c which were recently released on\u00a0Ancestry.com.\"pabe-habben-1778\"<\/em><\/p>\n

This post isn’t about those records. It’s about whether or not I need to include a comment on my image indicating that I modified the image by removing blank space from the original document.<\/p>\n

The names in the original book and accompanying image are spaced apart, most likely to allow for later comments or annotations. In the interest of making good use of space, I decided to remove most of the blank space from the original image, creating the image shown in this post.<\/p>\n

When an image of a document is manipulated by moving actual text or graphic content, I think that the individual modifying that image should indicate that such a modification has been made for essentially two reasons:<\/p>\n