{"id":15098,"date":"2022-04-23T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T15:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15098"},"modified":"2022-04-23T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T15:21:37","slug":"simple-ways-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/simple-ways-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Ways&#8230;Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Really getting into these things takes some time, but here are some general things to remember when you are \u201cstuck:\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Money and work<\/strong>&nbsp;motivate people to move and people are sometimes more mobile than we think-especially if opportunities were limited in the area where the person was living.<\/li><li>Create a&nbsp;<strong>timeline<\/strong>&nbsp;of all events in your ancestor\u2019s life.&nbsp;<strong>Gaps<\/strong>&nbsp;of more than a few years are opportunities for research. Lots of things can happen in two or three years.<\/li><li>Do you<strong>&nbsp;really know<\/strong>&nbsp;what you think you know? How do you know it? Did you assume when you should not have?<\/li><li>Do you know&nbsp;<strong>where that source<\/strong>&nbsp;came from?<\/li><li>Could you be&nbsp;<strong>wrong<\/strong>?<\/li><li>Are you familiar with&nbsp;<strong>all sources<\/strong>&nbsp;in the area\u2013civil (all levels of government) and private records?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really getting into these things takes some time, but here are some general things to remember when you are \u201cstuck:\u201d Money and work&nbsp;motivate people to move and people are sometimes more mobile than we think-especially if opportunities were limited in the area where the person was living. Create a&nbsp;timeline&nbsp;of all events in your ancestor\u2019s life.&nbsp;Gaps&nbsp;of [&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-15098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098","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=15098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}