{"id":8892,"date":"2019-06-07T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2019-06-07T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T21:00:55","slug":"reading-everything-makes-things-easier-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8892","title":{"rendered":"Reading Everything Makes Things Easier to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The 2 April 1902 will of Barbara Haase of Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, includes the names of two witnesses. One was written in English and the other was written in German. I didn&#8217;t do too bad of a job reading them, but wish I had read the entire set of documents from Barbara&#8217;s probate before I did.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/barbara_will_witnesses_will-745584.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/barbara_will_witnesses_will-745584.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/barbara_will_witnesses_will-745584-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"222\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/barbara_will_witnesses_subpoena-793956.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/barbara_will_witnesses_subpoena-793956.jpg 222w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/barbara_will_witnesses_subpoena-793956-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The subpoena from 12 July 1903 provides another rendering of the names of the witnesses to the will of Barbara Haase. The signatures are not all that difficult to read, but researchers should be aware that there may be additional records in the probate file that provides the names of the witnesses in a handwriting that may be easier to read.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Names of witnesses are always potential clues. The names are easier to use if they have been read and interpreted correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 April 1902 will of Barbara Haase of Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, includes the names of two witnesses. One was written in English and the other was written in German. I didn&#8217;t do too bad of a job reading them, but wish I had read the entire set of documents from Barbara&#8217;s probate before [&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-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892","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=8892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}