{"id":10973,"date":"2019-12-08T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T19:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10973"},"modified":"2019-12-08T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T19:55:51","slug":"genealogy-tricks-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/08\/genealogy-tricks-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Tricks or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m inclined to think that there are not any &#8220;tricks&#8221; to genealogical research. To be certain occasionally we stumble upon something, but that&#8217;s usually because we are looking for something and we have the names in our head and we notice something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often what are called &#8220;tricks&#8221; are really just good ideas. They are not &#8220;magic.&#8221; Those ideas include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Organizing materials as you find them.<\/li><li>Transcribing documents as you find them.<\/li><li>Using online trees as clues, not facts.<\/li><li>Identifying people on pictures when you can and as soon as possible.<\/li><li>Writing down your process so you can re-analyze it later. <\/li><li>Learning about multiple sources so you have more options. <\/li><li>Not jumping to conclusions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day <\/a><\/em>book is here. <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m inclined to think that there are not any &#8220;tricks&#8221; to genealogical research. To be certain occasionally we stumble upon something, but that&#8217;s usually because we are looking for something and we have the names in our head and we notice something. Often what are called &#8220;tricks&#8221; are really just good ideas. They are not [&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-10973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973","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=10973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}