{"id":8206,"date":"2018-12-26T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2018-12-26T01:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T01:00:41","slug":"which-copy-do-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8206","title":{"rendered":"Which Copy Do You Have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8207 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/habben_rolf_declaration-713182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/habben_rolf_declaration-713182.jpg 612w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/habben_rolf_declaration-713182-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/>One of the necessary items of citing genealogical sources is what copy of a document was actually used.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The image shown here is a handwritten copy of the Declaration of Intent for Rolf Habben, made out in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1886. This image was made from a photocopy of the copy which was contained in the homestead file.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rolf Habben had a handwritten copy of his declaration of intention.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At one point in time, Hancock County had the originals of these declarations of intent.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There was the &#8220;real deal&#8221; at the county courthouse, the copy Habben had, and the copy made from Habben&#8217;s copy that was included as a part of his homestead file.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then there is the photocopy I have (of the copy in the homestead file).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then there&#8217;s this image I made to post on the website.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then there&#8217;s the PDF file I made that contained a high quality scan of the entire homestead file (one of the documents in that file was the declaration of intent).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which copy of a record do you have?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the necessary items of citing genealogical sources is what copy of a document was actually used. The image shown here is a handwritten copy of the Declaration of Intent for Rolf Habben, made out in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1886. This image was made from a photocopy of the copy which was contained [&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-8206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206","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=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}