{"id":11228,"date":"2020-01-28T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2020-01-28T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:36:49","slug":"theres-thinking-and-theres-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/theres-thinking-and-theres-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Thinking and There&#8217;s Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the best ways I eliminate some errors in my reasoning is to go back and look at a conclusion that I have written and look at every part of it that is based on &#8220;what I think I know&#8221; and what I have some documentation for. Thinking when doing genealogical research is advised. That&#8217;s entirely different than thinking we know. What we &#8220;think we know&#8221; may be based on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>misconceptions,<\/li><li>our own experience (when it doesn&#8217;t apply to the problem at hand);<\/li><li>facts we have remembered incorrectly;<\/li><li>assumptions;<\/li><li>stereotypes about the family being researched; <\/li><li>and so on.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Any of these things we &#8220;think&#8221; we know can be hindering our research.<\/p>\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\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180424_123849.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8287\" width=\"387\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180424_123849.jpg 803w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180424_123849-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180424_123849-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180424_123849-624x497.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways I eliminate some errors in my reasoning is to go back and look at a conclusion that I have written and look at every part of it that is based on &#8220;what I think I know&#8221; and what I have some documentation for. Thinking when doing genealogical research is advised. [&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-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228","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=11228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}