{"id":13415,"date":"2021-05-08T20:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T01:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13415"},"modified":"2021-05-08T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T01:05:29","slug":"what-was-the-last-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/08\/what-was-the-last-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the last thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What was the last genealogical item you shared with someone else? It could be some information you discovered, a copy of a record you paid to obtain, a family picture you discovered, etc.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing is altruistic, but from a genealogy standpoint there is more to it than that. Sharing means &#8220;getting it out there&#8221; in multiple places and increases the chance that what you share lasts past you. If there&#8217;s only one copy of an item (particularly something in paper format), it&#8217;s &#8220;fragility&#8221; is deceased when copies of it are shared with others. Of course the original may still be fragile, but the copies &#8220;floating out there&#8221; increase the chance that the item is preserved in some format. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course when you share, someone else may share something they have with you. That&#8217;s an added benefit. But preservation should be high on your priority list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was the last genealogical item you shared with someone else? It could be some information you discovered, a copy of a record you paid to obtain, a family picture you discovered, etc.? Sharing is altruistic, but from a genealogy standpoint there is more to it than that. Sharing means &#8220;getting it out there&#8221; in [&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-13415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13415","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=13415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}