{"id":16286,"date":"2023-02-14T05:10:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16286"},"modified":"2023-02-15T05:17:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:17:31","slug":"how-reliable-is-that-birth-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/how-reliable-is-that-birth-date\/","title":{"rendered":"How Reliable is that Birth Date?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A genealogy record provides a date of birth. Despite what some may say, there&#8217;s no guaranteed way to know the conclusion you have reached about that date of birth is accurate. But here are some things to think about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Who was the likely informant for that date of birth?<\/li><li>How likely was the likely informant to have first hand knowledge of the date of birth?<\/li><li>Was the likely informant providing information when their memory was still fresh and reliable?<\/li><li>Any chance the informant was heard wrong or the clerk made some sort of error?<\/li><li>How possible was it that the informant guessed?<\/li><li>Am I using a reliable copy of that record or could there be an issue with the digital copy or transcription that I am using? <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And there may be other issues with the record that are not addressed here. There is no formula that guarantees you&#8217;ll always make the correct decision when deciding how reliable you think a piece of information is. But we can reduce the chance we make a mistake and use the wrong date by carefully understanding and interpreting the information we have located. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A genealogy record provides a date of birth. Despite what some may say, there&#8217;s no guaranteed way to know the conclusion you have reached about that date of birth is accurate. But here are some things to think about: Who was the likely informant for that date of birth? How likely was the likely informant [&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-16286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286","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=16286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}