{"id":1289,"date":"2012-12-13T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/13\/where-did-you-get-that-guess"},"modified":"2012-12-13T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:20:00","slug":"where-did-you-get-that-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/13\/where-did-you-get-that-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did You Get That Guess?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is recommended that you not “guess” about information you put in your genealogical files, especially in terms of where\/when someone was born, died, or married.<\/p>\n

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However, people will still do it.<\/div>\n
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If you must guess, at least indicate in your “source” for that guess why you guessed what you did. It’s one thing to put in guesses and leave a reason. It is another to enter in guesses with absolutely no reason at all. The first may be reasonable speculation, the second is myth. \u00a0There is enough myth floating around already without creating more.<\/div>\n
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It is recommended that you not “guess” about information you put in your genealogical files, especially in terms of where\/when someone was born, died, or married. However, people will still do it. If you must guess, at least indicate in your “source” for that guess why you guessed what you did. It’s one thing to […]<\/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-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","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=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}