{"id":11653,"date":"2020-05-07T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2020-05-08T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T13:19:42","slug":"each-relative-has-a-different-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/07\/each-relative-has-a-different-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Each Relative Has a Different Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is always good to interview as many relatives as possible about the same person or event. Each will remember slightly different things based on their own perspective and life experiences. That&#8217;s entirely natural. Humans are not virtual tape recorders no matter how &#8220;good&#8221; one may think their memory is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They may also have been told different stories about long-deceased relatives or remember details that resonate with them for one reason or another. Long-dead Aunt Myrtle may have liked one cousin better than another and shared more stories with one as a result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reasons are not so important as the reality: talk to as many as you can, even if they think &#8220;I don&#8217;t know nuthin&#8217; you ain&#8217;t already heard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always good to interview as many relatives as possible about the same person or event. Each will remember slightly different things based on their own perspective and life experiences. That&#8217;s entirely natural. Humans are not virtual tape recorders no matter how &#8220;good&#8221; one may think their memory is. They may also have been [&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-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","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=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}