{"id":14888,"date":"2022-03-11T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14888"},"modified":"2022-03-11T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:42:54","slug":"seeing-what-we-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/11\/seeing-what-we-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing What We Want"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two people can look at a picture of a relative and think that person looks like two different individuals who are unrelated to each other even though they are related to the person in the photograph. It&#8217;s because we sometimes see the connection that we want to see. It&#8217;s also because sometimes a person can look like more than one relative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same &#8220;seeing what we want to see&#8221; can happen when we analyze a document or a record. When interpreting a record or a statement in a document, try and view it with as open of a mind as possible. View it with the  mindset of &#8220;what does this say&#8221; instead of &#8220;what do I hope this says.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/\">Check out the books on my Genealogy Bookshelf.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people can look at a picture of a relative and think that person looks like two different individuals who are unrelated to each other even though they are related to the person in the photograph. It&#8217;s because we sometimes see the connection that we want to see. It&#8217;s also because sometimes a person can [&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-14888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888","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=14888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}