{"id":10541,"date":"2019-09-05T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10541"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:38:17","slug":"the-record-might-not-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/05\/the-record-might-not-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Record Might Not Be Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Genealogical researchers are reminded to be aware that any record can contain an incorrect piece of information. That&#8217;s true. A document can contain 15 pieces of information and 14 of them can be totally correct and that one last piece can be a mistake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t conclude immediately that something is wrong just because it looks off. Make certain that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You have the <strong>correct person<\/strong>.<\/li><li>You&#8217;ve <strong>transcribed <\/strong>the item correctly.<\/li><li>You have a <strong>good clear image<\/strong> of the record.<\/li><li>You are understanding all the <strong>terminology <\/strong>in the record.<\/li><li>The <strong>other information<\/strong> you have about the person is correct. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogical researchers are reminded to be aware that any record can contain an incorrect piece of information. That&#8217;s true. A document can contain 15 pieces of information and 14 of them can be totally correct and that one last piece can be a mistake. Maybe. Don&#8217;t conclude immediately that something is wrong just because it [&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-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","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=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}