{"id":12062,"date":"2020-08-15T07:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2020-08-15T07:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T12:20:45","slug":"a-few-reminders-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/15\/a-few-reminders-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few reminders for the good of the order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Check your assumptions. They could be incorrect.<\/li><li>Your gut reaction about what &#8220;really happened&#8221; when the records are confusing may be spot on. It may not.<\/li><li>That boring event you shouldn&#8217;t bother researching may end up being more intriguing than you ever imagined.<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t assume you have completely turned over every rock. Use a research log to mark the rocks you have turned over. If you don&#8217;t track the rocks you&#8217;ve looked at, you&#8217;ll end up turning the same ones over and over.<\/li><li>Avoid the urge to avoid the use of name. &#8220;He&#8221; and &#8220;she&#8221; can be confusing depending upon how the reference is worded. &#8220;Aunt,&#8221; Uncle,&#8221; &#8220;Grandma,&#8221; etc. can cause similar confusion.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few reminders for the good of the order: Check your assumptions. They could be incorrect. Your gut reaction about what &#8220;really happened&#8221; when the records are confusing may be spot on. It may not. That boring event you shouldn&#8217;t bother researching may end up being more intriguing than you ever imagined. Don&#8217;t assume you [&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-12062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","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=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}