{"id":10897,"date":"2019-11-22T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2019-11-22T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T02:47:19","slug":"do-you-rely-on-memory-instead-of-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/22\/do-you-rely-on-memory-instead-of-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Rely on Memory Instead of Checking?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the greater scheme of things, it is probably a minor thing. I made a reference on Twitter to a relative on whom I made a discovery. I referred to her by her relationship to me second cousin twice removed. After I posted the tweet, I realized that I had not really double-checked the relationship before I posted it&#8211;I thought I knew who her grandfather was &#8220;off the top of my head&#8221; and went from there. My memory was my source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately I didn&#8217;t refer to the cousin by name, so the error is not as bad as it could be and I realize that one tweet isn&#8217;t the end of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was a good reminder to me to check before making statements online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s good advice as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the greater scheme of things, it is probably a minor thing. I made a reference on Twitter to a relative on whom I made a discovery. I referred to her by her relationship to me second cousin twice removed. After I posted the tweet, I realized that I had not really double-checked the relationship [&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-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","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=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}