{"id":15250,"date":"2022-05-22T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15250"},"modified":"2022-05-22T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:01:49","slug":"as-many-as-you-can-or-doing-as-much-as-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/22\/as-many-as-you-can-or-doing-as-much-as-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"As Many As You Can or Doing as Much as You Can?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Very early in my research, I gave up on collecting as many names of relatives as I could. The goal of the biggest set of names, to me, seemed like a frivolous chase where there would always be one more ancestor, one more cousin, or one more in-law to track down in an attempt to gather the largest set of names I could. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t about getting as many names as I could. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was about finding out as much as I could about an ancestor, their family of origin, the family they created, their locality, their time period, and their culture. That was enough, but it gave me a better picture of that individual and that individual became more than just a name and few dates and locations in a database. Completely researching them also meant that I reduced the chance that I made errors in determining relationships between individuals and that I jumped to wrong conclusions about things my ancestors experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also means that I will never have as many names in my database as others do. That&#8217;s perfectly fine with me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very early in my research, I gave up on collecting as many names of relatives as I could. The goal of the biggest set of names, to me, seemed like a frivolous chase where there would always be one more ancestor, one more cousin, or one more in-law to track down in an attempt to [&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-15250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15250","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=15250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}