{"id":10116,"date":"2019-06-06T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2019-06-06T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:59:57","slug":"10116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/06\/10116\/","title":{"rendered":"Could One Detail Be Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Any record can have an incorrect detail. A clerk or a scribe can make an unintentional error for any of a number of reasons. This clerk in the 1840s confused the &#8220;former&#8221; names of two women involved in a court case with one of the other men being sued. It&#8217;s an honest and easy mistake to make. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good analytical technique with any record is to ask yourself: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What if one detail in this record were incorrect? How would my research change? Is it possible one item is wrong?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/wrong-name-1024x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/wrong-name-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/wrong-name-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/wrong-name-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/wrong-name.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration deadline ending on <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/ft-wayne-trip\/\">10 June for my trip to the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any record can have an incorrect detail. A clerk or a scribe can make an unintentional error for any of a number of reasons. This clerk in the 1840s confused the &#8220;former&#8221; names of two women involved in a court case with one of the other men being sued. It&#8217;s an honest and easy mistake [&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-10116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116","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=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}