{"id":11245,"date":"2020-02-02T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11245"},"modified":"2020-02-03T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T22:46:08","slug":"try-working-on-a-totally-new-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/02\/try-working-on-a-totally-new-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Working on a Totally New Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. <\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The one line from the lyrics to the television show &#8220;Cheers,&#8221; may not be entirely correct (there&#8217;s a tip about assuming and memory), but &#8220;taking a break&#8221; is sound genealogical advice.  Sometimes one comes back at their problems with a new perspective and a fresh attitude. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who just &#8220;can&#8217;t stop doing genealogy,&#8221; consider working on a family that is significantly different from your own: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your relatives urban? Try working on a rural family.<\/li><li>Your relatives been in the United States for centuries? Try working on a family who immigrated in the late 19th or early 20 century.<\/li><li>Your relatives Baptist? Try working on a family that was Catholic, Jewish, Quaker, etc.<\/li><li>Your family all 19th-century German immigrants to the United States? Try working on a family of early 20th century Irish immigrants.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Broadening your research experience can help with your own research on your families of interest. And if you want to be a professional researcher in any capacity, researching families other than your own is an absolute must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. The one line from the lyrics to the television show &#8220;Cheers,&#8221; may not be entirely correct (there&#8217;s a tip about assuming and memory), but &#8220;taking a break&#8221; is sound genealogical advice. Sometimes one comes back at their problems with a new perspective and [&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-11245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245","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=11245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}