{"id":13908,"date":"2021-08-14T08:39:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2021-08-15T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:02:52","slug":"give-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/14\/give-a-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Give a Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The note I made for a DNA match said only &#8220;likely Trautvetter.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no reason given for my conclusion. All I wrote were those two words: &#8220;likely Trautvetter.&#8221; It&#8217;s even possible that I got mixed up and meant to type another name besides &#8220;Trautvetter.&#8221; Without any commentary or record of what was running through my head, there&#8217;s no way I can evaluate the &#8220;likely Trautvetter&#8221; statement without trying to reproduce the work that got me there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s time wasted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evaluation is not time wasted. It is always beneficial to review one&#8217;s work after it has had time to cool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reproducing that work from scratch? That&#8217;s time wasted. My statement could have been as simple as &#8220;Reviewing the shared DNA matches I had with this unknown match on 8 March 2021 indicated 11 out of 15 of them are known descendants of Erasmus and Anna Katherine (Gross) Trautvetter.&#8221;<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actual analysis does not need to be in my notes, but if I&#8217;ve done any extensive analysis I should reference that document in my notes (or it&#8217;s location in my files). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/reasons-are-needed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/reasons-are-needed.jpg 695w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/reasons-are-needed-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The note I made for a DNA match said only &#8220;likely Trautvetter.&#8221; There was no reason given for my conclusion. All I wrote were those two words: &#8220;likely Trautvetter.&#8221; It&#8217;s even possible that I got mixed up and meant to type another name besides &#8220;Trautvetter.&#8221; Without any commentary or record of what was running through [&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-13908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908","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=13908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}