{"id":15072,"date":"2022-04-17T08:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15072"},"modified":"2022-04-17T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T13:03:27","slug":"are-your-references-clear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/17\/are-your-references-clear-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Your References Clear?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you read through your research notes, summaries, commentaries, etc. is it always clear to whom you are referring when you use the word &#8220;she,&#8221; &#8220;he,&#8221; &#8220;they,&#8221; etc.? Pronouns are great, but if you are writing about several people and then starting using &#8220;she&#8221; or &#8220;he&#8221; are the references clear from the context? If not, consider re-writing or re-phrasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Smith and Henry Johnson arrived in Colusa County, California, in 1856. Then he married one of the daughters of Jackson Brown and they moved to Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who got married to the daughter of Jackson Brown?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear, is it?\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you read through your research notes, summaries, commentaries, etc. is it always clear to whom you are referring when you use the word &#8220;she,&#8221; &#8220;he,&#8221; &#8220;they,&#8221; etc.? Pronouns are great, but if you are writing about several people and then starting using &#8220;she&#8221; or &#8220;he&#8221; are the references clear from the context? If not, [&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-15072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072","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=15072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}