{"id":15913,"date":"2022-11-03T19:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=15913"},"modified":"2022-11-05T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T19:47:02","slug":"data-in-compiled-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/data-in-compiled-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Data in Compiled Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Copying information from an online tree is a great way to repeat incorrect information. Just because something appears in an online compilation&#8211;even with a submitter name&#8211;does not mean that it is correct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of your tree should not  be to see how many names you can collect.  Treat researching that distant relative you just learned about the way you would a close relative&#8211;try to be as accurate as possible. If finding incorrect information on your grandma would upset you, keep in mind that person you just &#8220;copied and pasted&#8221; into your tree with out a second of validation may be someone&#8217;s grandma as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copying information from an online tree is a great way to repeat incorrect information. Just because something appears in an online compilation&#8211;even with a submitter name&#8211;does not mean that it is correct. The goal of your tree should not be to see how many names you can collect. Treat researching that distant relative you just [&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-15913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913","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=15913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}