{"id":15408,"date":"2022-06-23T08:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15408"},"modified":"2022-06-22T22:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T03:31:02","slug":"is-it-really-a-brick-wall-at-all-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/23\/is-it-really-a-brick-wall-at-all-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Really a Brick Wall at All?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From 2018&#8211;still good reminders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending upon which genealogist you ask there are either brick walls or there are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you get to a \u201cstuck place\u201d in your research and what it\u2019s called doesn\u2019t really matter. There are several ways to try and get around those places, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>making certain you have looked at all records<\/li><li>making certain you are aware of all records created in the location of interest<\/li><li>looking at how someone solved a similar problem<\/li><li>thinking about whether your assumptions are valid<\/li><li>writing up your problem for someone else to read<\/li><li>making certain you are not relying on someone else\u2019s conclusions<\/li><li>making certain that what you think you know is actually correct.<\/li><li>etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other approaches, but starting with this list is a good place to begin. And\u2026it doesn\u2019t always matter what you call it\u2013when you are stuck, you are stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2018&#8211;still good reminders. Depending upon which genealogist you ask there are either brick walls or there are not. Sometimes you get to a \u201cstuck place\u201d in your research and what it\u2019s called doesn\u2019t really matter. There are several ways to try and get around those places, including: making certain you have looked at all [&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-15408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","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=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}