{"id":14106,"date":"2021-10-05T22:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14106"},"modified":"2021-10-05T22:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:43:36","slug":"spr-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/spr-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"SPR Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Avoid jumping to conclusions based only on one document or record no matter how tempting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask yourself: What other &#8220;reality&#8221; could explain the information I have found in the record? What other records may help provide more information? Is there a simpler explanation? Is there someone else I could ask for their opinion of what I have found? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I need an answer to the problem &#8220;right now&#8221; or can it wait? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have I transcribed the records, summarized the information they contained, and written out my conclusions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to tell my students &#8220;SPR&#8221; when they would shout out answers. It stood for &#8220;Stop. Pause. Reflect.&#8221;<br><br>That&#8217;s good advice for genealogists as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid jumping to conclusions based only on one document or record no matter how tempting. Ask yourself: What other &#8220;reality&#8221; could explain the information I have found in the record? What other records may help provide more information? Is there a simpler explanation? Is there someone else I could ask for their opinion of what [&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-14106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106","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=14106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}