{"id":11166,"date":"2020-01-16T07:26:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T13:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2020-01-16T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T13:26:51","slug":"is-there-one-thing-i-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/is-there-one-thing-i-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There One Thing I Don&#8217;t Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One reason for tripping over a stumbling block in our research is that there&#8217;s a piece of information we don&#8217;t have and that we don&#8217;t know we don&#8217;t have. When a research situation is confusing you, ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Was there a historical event taking place of which I am not aware?<\/li><li>Did these two people have a relationship that I don&#8217;t know about and which might not have left a record?<\/li><li>Is there a term that I don&#8217;t understand?<\/li><li>Is there a process (legal, military enlistment, religious, cultural, etc.) that I don&#8217;t understand completely or am not aware of?<\/li><li>And so on.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The difficulty is that we don&#8217;t always know what we don&#8217;t know. <\/p>\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&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>book is here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">get our genealogy tip daily in your email for free, add your address here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason for tripping over a stumbling block in our research is that there&#8217;s a piece of information we don&#8217;t have and that we don&#8217;t know we don&#8217;t have. When a research situation is confusing you, ask yourself: Was there a historical event taking place of which I am not aware? Did these two people [&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-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","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=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}