{"id":11168,"date":"2020-01-16T21:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11168"},"modified":"2020-01-16T21:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:37:44","slug":"jump-for-joy-and-not-to-a-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/jump-for-joy-and-not-to-a-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump for Joy and not to a Conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jumpfordiscovery-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jumpfordiscovery-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jumpfordiscovery-1-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every genealogist has had that moment when they&#8217;ve made a big discovery. The following excitement often motivates the researcher to immediately continue to the research. That&#8217;s not always the best idea. The thought that &#8220;I&#8217;ve solved it,&#8221; can cause us to overlook inconsistent pieces of information, new pieces of information, etc. Our euphoria at having figured it out can sometimes blind us to relevant information that doesn&#8217;t fit. It can also cause us to overlook key clues or jump to additional conclusions that aren&#8217;t supported by the information we&#8217;ve located. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And like Charlie the dog in the picture, we may be a little out of focus when we are excited. That&#8217;s not always the best time to immediately research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the information has been saved, printed\/downloaded, copied, and filed it may be time to do something else for a little while and let the discovery simmer in the recesses of our mind. Doing something non-genealogy related for a short time can allow us to come back to the information when the excitement has worn off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s all right if our excitement allows us to jump for joy. We just don&#8217;t want to jump to conclusions in that same excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every genealogist has had that moment when they&#8217;ve made a big discovery. The following excitement often motivates the researcher to immediately continue to the research. That&#8217;s not always the best idea. The thought that &#8220;I&#8217;ve solved it,&#8221; can cause us to overlook inconsistent pieces of information, new pieces of information, etc. Our euphoria at having [&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-11168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168","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=11168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}