{"id":16324,"date":"2023-02-23T07:09:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16324"},"modified":"2023-02-23T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:09:21","slug":"why-bother-with-all-those","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/23\/why-bother-with-all-those\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bother With All Those?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many times genealogy success is not about using the latest website or the latest iteration of &#8220;research the neighborhood&#8221; with new verbiage thrown in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s about doing all the tedious grunt work of searching every record you can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading through forty family reunion announcements got to be repetitive and nearly mind-numbing. But there was one reference to a couple that indicated they may have had a child. This child was not listed in any other reunion reference to these people. Further research indicated the couple had a child who did not live long&#8230;a child that was rarely mentioned after the fact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A search of an ancestor&#8217;s long sequence of mortgages indicated there was one to his in-laws that eventually revealed some family drama of which I was unaware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the best way to get information is to meticulously review records. If things were easy to discover, they would already be known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Search NewsBank\u2019s GenealogyBank for your ancestors.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many times genealogy success is not about using the latest website or the latest iteration of &#8220;research the neighborhood&#8221; with new verbiage thrown in. It&#8217;s about doing all the tedious grunt work of searching every record you can. Reading through forty family reunion announcements got to be repetitive and nearly mind-numbing. But there was one [&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-16324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324","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=16324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}