{"id":13265,"date":"2021-04-11T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2021-04-11T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T19:25:48","slug":"a-research-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/11\/a-research-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Research Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m editing the last batch of <em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> for the follow-up book. One thing I&#8217;m realizing while reviewing these items is the number of leads I discovered that, for one reason or another, I never pursued any further. When reading the older tips, I realized that they served as a journal of sorts for my research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tend to write tips when I&#8217;m working on actual research as ideas enter my head&#8211;I can see that when I&#8217;m reading them in chronological order. For that reason, it seems like keeping a research journal of what I have discovered with brief thoughts on the item might not be a bad idea. I could periodically review it and &#8220;mark off&#8221; things that have been pursued further or more completely analyzed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entries in the journal would not have to be as formal as in a research log. I wouldn&#8217;t have to worry about citations or anything of that sort. The description of the materials should be enough for me to determine where I got what I did. The informal writing might be helpful in clearing out my thoughts about what I have found. Keeping the journal in an electronic format would allow me to search it for key terms, surnames, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m editing the last batch of Genealogy Tip of the Day for the follow-up book. One thing I&#8217;m realizing while reviewing these items is the number of leads I discovered that, for one reason or another, I never pursued any further. When reading the older tips, I realized that they served as a journal of [&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-13265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265","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=13265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}