My\ngreat-aunt Ruth remembered a cute story that took place in my Mother\u2019s\ngrandparents\u2019 home when my Mother was a small child. It involved Mom walking\naround the house and mentioned the northeast bedroom. The northeast bedroom?
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\nAs I read it, I scrunched my nose and made that face when I am certain that\nsomething is wrong. My own grandparents had lived in the same home for thirty\nyears. I had been in it often. There was no northeast bedroom. The entire north\nside of the house was the living room. Then I remembered.
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\nMy Grandparents, not needing the downstairs bedrooms, had taken down a wall and\nenlarged the living room. The seeming error in my great-aunt\u2019s story was\nnot an error at all. My personal memory was the problem. It only extended\nthrough my life time. In this case the\ndiscrepancy was small and my memory of what I had been told was able to rectify\nit. Many times that is not the case. Don\u2019t\nassume that someone else\u2019s memory is incorrect. It could be that your personal\nknowledge is simply incomplete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Purchase an <\/a>AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em> test. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This tip originally ran in March 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My great-aunt Ruth remembered a cute story that took place in my Mother\u2019s grandparents\u2019 home when my Mother was a small child. It involved Mom walking around the house and mentioned the northeast bedroom. The northeast bedroom? As I read it, I scrunched my nose and made that face when I am certain that something […]<\/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-13251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251","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=13251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}