{"id":15871,"date":"2022-10-21T16:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15871"},"modified":"2022-10-22T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T11:41:41","slug":"clues-they-did-little-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/21\/clues-they-did-little-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Clues They Did Little Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have two relatively close direct line ancestors for whom distant cousins have assumed &#8220;nicknames&#8221; that were not true at all. When I see an online tree with that &#8220;nickname,&#8221; it tells me that the compiler did not really do any work at all because the &#8220;nickname&#8221; does not appear in any actual record (official or otherwise) for the ancestor in question and the &#8220;compiler&#8221; simply copied the information from someone else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repeating other known errors is usually a sign of little original work as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">Genealogy Search<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<em>GenealogyBank.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two relatively close direct line ancestors for whom distant cousins have assumed &#8220;nicknames&#8221; that were not true at all. When I see an online tree with that &#8220;nickname,&#8221; it tells me that the compiler did not really do any work at all because the &#8220;nickname&#8221; does not appear in any actual record (official [&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-15871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15871","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=15871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}