{"id":4359,"date":"2017-03-25T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2017-03-25T03:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T03:00:36","slug":"how-has-it-been-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"How Has It Been Updated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4360\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1860-updated-300x51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1860-updated-300x51.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1860-updated-768x130.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1860-updated.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>is indicating that it&#8217;s 1860 census has been &#8220;last updated&#8221; on 24 March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The question is &#8220;how?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I realize that\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em> provides access to a vast quantity of information at no charge. I appreciate that. I just wish that I had some inkling of how this database has been updated? There&#8217;s several ways it could have been updated and it makes me wonder<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have images been improved?<\/li>\n<li>Have missing images been included?<\/li>\n<li>Were there areas that were not originally included in the index?<\/li>\n<li>Has the index been &#8220;improved,&#8221; had alternate interpretations added, etc.?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What sort of update has been done determines whether I need search the database again or not. It is something I would like to know.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>is guilty of the same sin of omission. With\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> it is a bigger problem as I am paying for their service.<\/p>\n<p>Is the 1860 census &#8220;new and improved&#8221; in a way that I need to perform all those searches for Benjamin Butler over again? Do I need to see if there were any 1860 enumerations that were difficult to read? I don&#8217;t know what I need to do if all I know is that a database has been updated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FamilySearch\u00a0is indicating that it&#8217;s 1860 census has been &#8220;last updated&#8221; on 24 March 2017. The question is &#8220;how?&#8221; I realize that\u00a0FamilySearch provides access to a vast quantity of information at no charge. I appreciate that. I just wish that I had some inkling of how this database has been updated? There&#8217;s several ways it could [&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-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","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=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}