{"id":9076,"date":"2019-08-11T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2019-08-11T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T14:54:17","slug":"do-you-just-need-a-simple-lookup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9076","title":{"rendered":"Do You Just Need a Simple Lookup?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nSometimes all the genealogist really needs is a lookup. Sometimes they need more extended research. Which really depends upon the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/quincy_daily_journal_1892_sartorius_behrens-729756-714365.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9077\" width=\"579\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/quincy_daily_journal_1892_sartorius_behrens-729756-714365.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/quincy_daily_journal_1892_sartorius_behrens-729756-714365-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One lookup example stems from the newspaper article I located from 1892 in Quincy, Illinois. It references a court case regarding estate of my ancestor, Ulfert Behrens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Years ago, when I was much younger, I located his estate file which included a copy of his will. I did not do land or court record work at that time. While I am always interested in land records, I don&#8217;t need them right now and the family relationships have been fairly well documented with other records. However, this court case intrigued me. But do I need to hire someone for extensive work to research this? Probably not. All I really need in this case is information from the file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I do need someone with research experience&#8211;even though they are doing a &#8220;lookup.&#8221; Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>So they know how to search for this record. The newspaper doesn&#8217;t have any citation information.<\/li><li>So they know how to extract. There might only be a few papers in this file or there could easily be hundreds. In some cases, many of the pages may be repetitive or contain entirely legal jargon. I might not want to go to the expense of getting a copy of the &#8220;entire file.&#8221;<\/li><li>They need to have experience searching this type of record and know what various items in the file mean and interpret them correctly.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, I probably don&#8217;t need a formal research report since one document is being researched. However, I do need to know what records were searched, how they were searched, and what the citation is for the records that were located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lookup might not be as simple as a lookup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes all the genealogist really needs is a lookup. Sometimes they need more extended research. Which really depends upon the situation. One lookup example stems from the newspaper article I located from 1892 in Quincy, Illinois. It references a court case regarding estate of my ancestor, Ulfert Behrens. Years ago, when I was much younger, [&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-9076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","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=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}