{"id":15502,"date":"2022-07-14T03:26:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2022-07-15T03:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T08:30:53","slug":"what-i-already-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/14\/what-i-already-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Already Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes researchers wonder why they should get something when \u201cit\u2019s only going to tell me what I already know.\u201d That\u2019s a valid concern, but there are times when that record that \u201crepeats\u201d what other records say can be helpful, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the first record has a questionable informant<\/li><li>the first record really doesn\u2019t make sense<\/li><li>the first record is difficult to read<\/li><li>the first record is one that may be inaccurate<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And there is always the chance that the \u201crecord that tells what you already know\u201d has information that you\u2019ve not located elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don\u2019t know until you look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes researchers wonder why they should get something when \u201cit\u2019s only going to tell me what I already know.\u201d That\u2019s a valid concern, but there are times when that record that \u201crepeats\u201d what other records say can be helpful, such as: the first record has a questionable informant the first record really doesn\u2019t make sense [&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-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","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=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}