{"id":9380,"date":"2019-10-26T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2019-10-26T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:59:16","slug":"mother-was-a-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9380","title":{"rendered":"Mother was a Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Transcribing documents is often about context. Analysis should not be done in a vacuum.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This image makes that point crystal clear. It certainly looks like &#8220;worker&#8221; on the superficial analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mother-was.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mother-was.jpg 382w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mother-was-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> But it is not. It&#8217;s taken out of context from this document from probate records in the Bronx, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not &#8220;worker.&#8221; It&#8217;s &#8220;mother.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mother.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mother.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mother-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mother-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nIs that how you read it in the first box?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are indexes and finding aids that are created by individuals viewing materials and images out of context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It never hurts to think about how something could be transcribed if it were viewed in isolation.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcribing documents is often about context. Analysis should not be done in a vacuum.\u00a0 This image makes that point crystal clear. It certainly looks like &#8220;worker&#8221; on the superficial analysis. But it is not. It&#8217;s taken out of context from this document from probate records in the Bronx, New York. It&#8217;s not &#8220;worker.&#8221; It&#8217;s &#8220;mother.&#8221;\u00a0 [&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-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","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=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}