{"id":2397,"date":"2016-03-27T16:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2016-03-27T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:34:59","slug":"dont-ask-me-what-book-that-was-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2397","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Ask Me What Book That Was In&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This information about Isaac Rucker (1780-1850) appears in a book. Apparently it was a book that someone at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> digitized and indexed. It may have been a wonderful leather-bound book. It may have been a spiral bound photocopy of typewritten pages. There is just one question.<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/isaac-rucker.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2398\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2398 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/isaac-rucker-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"isaac-rucker\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/isaac-rucker-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/isaac-rucker.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What book?<\/p>\n<p>Based on the results at <em>Ancestry.com<\/em> it is anyone&#8217;s guess.\u00a0\u00a0The &#8220;Source information&#8221; does not say and the &#8220;Source information&#8221; itself is not very specific as\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> only includes a vague description for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D61157\">North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000<\/a>:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ancestry.com. <em>North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000<\/em> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This database does include images of actual books, <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2394\">most notably the DAR lineage books<\/a>. Those books do have some actual practical uses for some genealogists (with limitations).<\/p>\n<p>But this reference to Isaac Rucker?<\/p>\n<p>If this had been information I had never located in any other place and if this Isaac had been a brick wall, I would have considered using this information as clues to try and find the actual book (full text searches at (http:\/\/books.google.com), (http:\/\/www.archive.org), and (http:\/\/www.hathitrust.org) would have been good places to start.<\/p>\n<p>The theoretical genealogist in me wonders how to cite this database entry. The practical genealogist in me tells me not to bother because I&#8217;m not putting something like this in my database anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t cite things I don&#8217;t use and I diligently avoid using things that appear to have been dropped from outer space into a database.<\/p>\n<p>This reference above is equivalent to saying &#8220;here&#8217;s something I found in a book. Just don&#8217;t ask me what book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This information about Isaac Rucker (1780-1850) appears in a book. Apparently it was a book that someone at\u00a0Ancestry.com digitized and indexed. It may have been a wonderful leather-bound book. It may have been a spiral bound photocopy of typewritten pages. There is just one question. What book? Based on the results at Ancestry.com it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}