{"id":15091,"date":"2022-04-22T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15091"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:09:22","slug":"do-i-need-every-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/22\/do-i-need-every-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Need Every Detail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some relatives are reluctant to talk to the family genealogist for fear that every detail of a family skeleton or scandal will be broadcast for the world to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask yourself<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2205\">&nbsp;if you really need to know every detail of every family squabble<\/a>. It may be sufficient to know that two uncles fought over money when their father died and never spoke again. It may be sufficient to know that a mother and daughter didn\u2019t speak for the last twenty years of the mother\u2019s life without going into excruciating detail of exactly what precipitated the falling out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, if the person to whom you are talking actually \u201clived through the family drama,\u201d&nbsp;it may be difficult to get answers to questions because the entire situation is painful. Tread lightly. \u201cDrama\u201d and scandal look different when one was not in the throes of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes if you press too hard you end up with no information from a relative. And something is usually better than nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some relatives are reluctant to talk to the family genealogist for fear that every detail of a family skeleton or scandal will be broadcast for the world to hear. Ask yourself&nbsp;if you really need to know every detail of every family squabble. It may be sufficient to know that two uncles fought over money when [&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-15091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091","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=15091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}