{"id":13544,"date":"2021-05-29T08:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T13:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2021-05-29T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T13:08:55","slug":"tracking-the-wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/tracking-the-wrongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the Wrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Years ago I was stuck on my Ira Sargent. I spent a fair amount of time locating men with this name in the 1860 and 1870 census in an attempt to show they were &#8220;my guy&#8221; who first appeared in the 1880 census. For one reason or another I was able to eliminate them as being mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one thing I did was keep a list of every one I found along with the reason why he was not mine. The reasons varied, but included: too old, too young, born in wrong place, wrong wife, etc. Keeping track of the reasons was important for two reasons. One was so that I didn&#8217;t redo the research. The second was that I could go back and revisit these &#8220;wrong&#8221; guys if I discovered that what I thought I knew about my guy&#8217;s age, place of birth, wife, etc. was wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out on of the wrong guys was a second cousin of my ancestor&#8211;another reason for keeping track of those wrong ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I was stuck on my Ira Sargent. I spent a fair amount of time locating men with this name in the 1860 and 1870 census in an attempt to show they were &#8220;my guy&#8221; who first appeared in the 1880 census. For one reason or another I was able to eliminate them as [&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-13544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544","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=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}