{"id":6242,"date":"2018-02-12T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2018-02-12T18:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T18:50:35","slug":"declaring-that-the-original-should-be-viewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6242","title":{"rendered":"Declaring that the Original Should Be Viewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always advised to look at the original.<\/p>\n<p>The entry for Charles Gropp in\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977&#8221; is an excellent reason why. The index entry indicates that the 49-year old had a &#8220;naturalization&#8221; in 1868 in Coshocton, County, Ohio.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6243 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/coshocton-naturalization-actually-declaration-300x123.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/coshocton-naturalization-actually-declaration-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/coshocton-naturalization-actually-declaration-768x316.png 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/coshocton-naturalization-actually-declaration-1024x421.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not quite what Charles Gropp did on 27 November 1868. What he did on that date was to declare his intention to become a citizen of the United States. The heading on the &#8220;cookie trail&#8221; in the browser window even indicated that this image came from the Declarations of Intention from Coshocton County, Ohio, between 1862 and 1880 (Volume 1A).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not guarantee that Gropp ever naturalized&#8211;at least not on this image. Declarations were filed (usually) shortly after arriving in the United States or at least shortly after realizing they had decided to become a citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration of intent date has a different interpretation than the naturalization date&#8211;largely because there&#8217;s not the time wait to declare during this time period like there is for those who were naturalizing. This intention gives Gropp&#8217;s arrival date. Not all declarations of intention provide this information.<\/p>\n<p>Always read the original and make certain you know what you are looking at. How you interpret a document hinges on it.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6244 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/coshocton-naturalization-actually-declaration-actual-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/coshocton-naturalization-actually-declaration-actual-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/coshocton-naturalization-actually-declaration-actual-768x665.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/coshocton-naturalization-actually-declaration-actual.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always advised to look at the original. The entry for Charles Gropp in\u00a0FamilySearch&#8216;s &#8220;Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977&#8221; is an excellent reason why. The index entry indicates that the 49-year old had a &#8220;naturalization&#8221; in 1868 in Coshocton, County, Ohio.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not quite what Charles Gropp did on 27 November 1868. What he did [&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-6242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","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=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}