{"id":16282,"date":"2023-02-13T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T17:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16282"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:23:49","slug":"you-cant-retract-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/you-cant-retract-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Retract It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Years ago, when I was very new to genealogy, I was &#8220;certain&#8221; that a certain ancestor was born in 1820. I put that year of birth on all my pedigree charts and family groups charts. I put that year of birth in queries that I had published in print genealogy query magazines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not the year he was born. I had no source for that year. Now it&#8217;s all over the internet. It is virtually impossible to get a wrong date of birth for someone out of all the genealogy sites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not to fault individuals who make honest mistakes. This is not to say don&#8217;t publish or share any information. This is a warning to be careful and make certain you have some evidence for a date or place of an event before sharing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, when I was very new to genealogy, I was &#8220;certain&#8221; that a certain ancestor was born in 1820. I put that year of birth on all my pedigree charts and family groups charts. I put that year of birth in queries that I had published in print genealogy query magazines. That&#8217;s not the [&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-16282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282","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=16282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}