{"id":11633,"date":"2020-05-01T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11633"},"modified":"2020-05-01T20:32:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:32:41","slug":"what-you-think-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/what-you-think-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Think You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the things that can block our research efforts are things that we &#8220;know&#8221; about our relative that are simply not true .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One problem-solving approach is to turn the computer off, put away your phones, and avoid your files. Then write down everything you know about your problem ancestor, including:<\/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=\"269\" height=\"214\" 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: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>place and date of birth,<\/li><li>areas of residence,<\/li><li>names of parents,<\/li><li>names of other relatives,<\/li><li>educational level, <\/li><li>religious preference, <\/li><li>occupation,<\/li><li>name(s) of spouse(s), <\/li><li>names of children,<\/li><li>ethnic background, <\/li><li>social class,<\/li><li>comparison to their peers (financially better off, not financially better off, etc.),<\/li><li>anything else,<\/li><li>shoe size.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let the list sit for a while&#8211;preferably a day or more. See if you can add anything to it. Then after a few days, see which of those things you actually have documentation for.  Anything for which you don&#8217;t have documentation may not be true (even documented items may not be true, depending on the documentation). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those undocumented things you think you know about your ancestor could be building your brick walls. How would your research change if they were not true? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nGet more tips in our&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">book<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that can block our research efforts are things that we &#8220;know&#8221; about our relative that are simply not true . One problem-solving approach is to turn the computer off, put away your phones, and avoid your files. Then write down everything you know about your problem ancestor, including: place and date [&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-11633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633","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=11633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}