{"id":10112,"date":"2019-06-05T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10112"},"modified":"2019-06-05T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:12:12","slug":"this-trick-will-solve-your-research-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/05\/this-trick-will-solve-your-research-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"This Trick Will Solve Your Research Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The reality is that there is no trick or instant solution to genealogical research problems. However, generally speaking the following approaches are helpful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>citing your sources;<\/li><li>learning as much as you can about all the records in the area; <\/li><li>learning the history of the area; <\/li><li>having contemporary maps; <\/li><li>obtaining as many records as possible; <\/li><li>using compiled sources (published genealogy books, online trees, etc. ) as stepping stones to original records; <\/li><li>realizing assumptions may not be true; <\/li><li>continuing to learn about genealogical research in general; <\/li><li>proofing and double checking your work.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Not one trick and not a guarantee, but these general suggestions will go a long way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality is that there is no trick or instant solution to genealogical research problems. However, generally speaking the following approaches are helpful: citing your sources; learning as much as you can about all the records in the area; learning the history of the area; having contemporary maps; obtaining as many records as possible; using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}