{"id":17186,"date":"2023-10-16T21:52:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T02:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17186"},"modified":"2023-10-17T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T03:01:37","slug":"quit-surfing-and-do-something-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/quit-surfing-and-do-something-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit Surfing and Do Something"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>A blast from the past:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be easy to waste \u201cresearch\u201d time by mindlessly looking at online sites for one thing or another.&nbsp; Some ways to avoid these time wasting activities are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>make a list of research tasks you wish to accomplish;<\/li><li>turn your internet connection off;<\/li><li>make a list of documents to transcribe;<\/li><li>make a list of \u201cdone\u201d ancestors that should be reviewed;<\/li><li>set a schedule of when to go back and check a site for an update to a database (daily is probably excessive);<\/li><li>lists in general are good.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Chasing some research leads down those \u201crabbit holes\u201d can be a good thing\u2013sometimes. But it can be easy to waste an inordinate amount of time chasing after half-baked, uncooked leads on your computer, when you\u2019ve got three perfectly good cookies sitting on the counter.&nbsp; The only problem is that you have to get off your chair to get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blast from the past: It can be easy to waste \u201cresearch\u201d time by mindlessly looking at online sites for one thing or another.&nbsp; Some ways to avoid these time wasting activities are: make a list of research tasks you wish to accomplish; turn your internet connection off; make a list of documents to transcribe; [&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-17186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17186","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=17186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}