{"id":15493,"date":"2022-07-11T07:26:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15493"},"modified":"2022-07-12T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:57:37","slug":"newspapers-get-it-rong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/newspapers-get-it-rong\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers Get it Rong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newspapers can easily get a fact wrong in the rush to meet a deadline or simply because details are not double checked. Online searches of digital newspapers need to take this into account. If looking for a reference to a specific person, consider using just their first or last name and a key detail of the event or narrow down the search for the approximate time of the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of other key words that may be mentioned in the article besides the name&#8211;occupation, type of event, street name, etc. There is also the chance that your person of interest is mentioned without their first name or without their name at all. If a newspaper mention of a relative suggests that there might have been earlier writings about the event and you cannot find them, consider search approaches without using their name at all&#8211;sometimes when a story is &#8220;fresh&#8221; someone may not even be named in the story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspapers can easily get a fact wrong in the rush to meet a deadline or simply because details are not double checked. Online searches of digital newspapers need to take this into account. If looking for a reference to a specific person, consider using just their first or last name and a key detail 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-15493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493","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=15493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}