{"id":10153,"date":"2019-06-15T12:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T17:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2019-06-15T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T17:54:41","slug":"read-the-whole-thing-before-thinking-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/read-the-whole-thing-before-thinking-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Whole Thing Before Thinking Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It can be tempting to see one &#8220;juicy&#8221; clue in a document and want to run with it and begin researching it as soon as possible. It can be tempting to see a relative&#8217;s name in a document and conclude that the record has to  be on him. It can be easy to misinterpret a word, get that incorrect meaning stuck in your head, and create a brick wall where none existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the entire document that you&#8217;ve located. Think about what it says. Think about what it does not say. What does that document <em>really<\/em> imply? What does it not imply? Is there something you are hoping to see in that document that is not there? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may seem like needless advice, but you might be surprised how easy it can be to read part of a document or file and jump off on further research when that unread portion either conflicts what you have read or provides additional detail to make further research easier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be tempting to see one &#8220;juicy&#8221; clue in a document and want to run with it and begin researching it as soon as possible. It can be tempting to see a relative&#8217;s name in a document and conclude that the record has to be on him. It can be easy to misinterpret a [&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-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","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=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}