{"id":5388,"date":"2017-09-14T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:24:39","slug":"always-read-that-introductory-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5388","title":{"rendered":"Always Read that Introductory Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introductions matter.<\/p>\n<p>The microfilmer of the St. Joseph County, Michigan, Deed Index (Volume 1) indicated that he took three images of each page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5389\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/st-joseph-deeds-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/st-joseph-deeds-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/st-joseph-deeds.jpg 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I had just jumped into the index without seeing this page I might have been very confused and wasted an inordinate amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>Always look for prefatory material. Even if it&#8217;s record type with which you are very familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes being familiar causes us to omit certain basic steps&#8211;like reading a preface or at least looking for one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introductions matter. The microfilmer of the St. Joseph County, Michigan, Deed Index (Volume 1) indicated that he took three images of each page. If I had just jumped into the index without seeing this page I might have been very confused and wasted an inordinate amount of time. Always look for prefatory material. Even if [&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-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","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=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}