{"id":2717,"date":"2016-05-06T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T19:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2016-05-06T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T19:41:32","slug":"do-you-see-that-1868-recording-receipt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2717","title":{"rendered":"Do You See that 1868 Recording Receipt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any copy can hide clues that are on the original.<\/p>\n<p>The color digital image of this original 1868 deed does make it clear (if one really looks) that there&#8217;s something in the middle portion of the image that was not on the original piece of paper. Had I moved the attached paper, taken the image with different lighting or shadows, or forced it down more, the fact the clerk&#8217;s receipt was not part of the original document would have been more difficult to discern.<\/p>\n<p>On a photocopy the difference might have been even less easy to notice. And on a scan or a photocopy or a photocopy of a photocopy, it would have been even worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deed-receipt.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2720\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deed-receipt-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"deed-receipt\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deed-receipt-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deed-receipt-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deed-receipt-768x1157.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/deed-receipt.jpg 983w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a01868 land deed was purhased on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=9&amp;pub=5575075447&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5337446131&amp;customid=&amp;icep_uq=genealogy+postcards&amp;icep_sellerId=&amp;icep_ex_kw=&amp;icep_sortBy=12&amp;icep_catId=&amp;icep_minPrice=&amp;icep_maxPrice=&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_self\">Ebay<\/a>. How the seller came to acquire it is another question entirely. This copy would have belonged to Edward Hall, the grantee on the deed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any copy can hide clues that are on the original. The color digital image of this original 1868 deed does make it clear (if one really looks) that there&#8217;s something in the middle portion of the image that was not on the original piece of paper. Had I moved the attached paper, taken the image [&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-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","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=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}