{"id":690,"date":"2010-07-31T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/finding-a-better-copy\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T01:22:30","slug":"finding-a-better-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/finding-a-better-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Better Copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had this little tip in the back of my mind for quite sometime, but I can never seem to find a good example.\u00a0 Just moments ago, I found the perfect example.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While working on my Parks family in Michigan, I came across the 1870 census for one of the family members.\u00a0 Below is a partial copy of the image found on Ancestry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ancestry\" alt=\"ancestry\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TFOwHBCP-tI\/AAAAAAAAFm0\/Qgh5bcdksVo\/ancestry%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"441\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boy, sure can\u2019t read that faded handwriting, can you?<\/p>\n<p>Wondering if it was the image itself, I headed over to HeritageQuest (through my library subscription) and found the exact same document, however a more readable version (below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"hq\" alt=\"hq\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TFOwHShF5iI\/AAAAAAAAFm4\/mq73mN-LDpc\/hq%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"409\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s much better, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n<p>The point is, some records exist in several formats\/media and if the reproduced image is poor, try finding it somewhere else.\u00a0 This is also relevant to indexes.\u00a0 When I can\u2019t find what I am looking for on Ancestry (my primary census source), I head over to HeritageQuest hoping their index is slightly different helping me to find what I am looking for.\u00a0 In the case of censuses, there are now two additional sources with indexes to use (FamilySearch and Footnote; completeness varies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had this little tip in the back of my mind for quite sometime, but I can never seem to find a good example.\u00a0 Just moments ago, I found the perfect example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","cat-27-id","cat-25-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-b8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}