{"id":11240,"date":"2020-01-31T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2020-01-31T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T03:47:33","slug":"when-you-are-stuck-some-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/31\/when-you-are-stuck-some-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Are Stuck: Some Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Write up every piece of information you know about your &#8220;lost&#8221; ancestor.  Every piece. <\/li><li>Include a source citation for every piece of information you know about your ancestor&#8211;if it came from an interview of a relative, so state. If it was on a piece of paper or a digital image of that paper, cite it. Make certain you have transcribed the information completely and accurately from that source.<\/li><li>If you don&#8217;t have a source for a piece of information&#8211;indicate that. That doesn&#8217;t mean the information is wrong, just that you don&#8217;t have a source for it.<\/li><li>Are there any relatives of the &#8220;lost person&#8221; who have not been fully researched? And if you think they are fully researched, have you really confirmed that? <\/li><li>Are there any words or terms that you have encountered while searching that person that you are not completely certain you understand? <\/li><li>Have you shared your write up of your &#8220;lost person&#8221; with a researcher, genealogy group, message board, etc. who might be able to give some insight?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other things one can do as well, including learning about the time period and location of the &#8220;lost person,&#8221; their religious affiliation, occupation, educational level, etc. <\/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\u00a0<\/a><\/em>book is here.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/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>Write up every piece of information you know about your &#8220;lost&#8221; ancestor. Every piece. Include a source citation for every piece of information you know about your ancestor&#8211;if it came from an interview of a relative, so state. If it was on a piece of paper or a digital image of that paper, cite it. [&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-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240","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=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}