{"id":19983,"date":"2024-06-03T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=19983"},"modified":"2024-06-05T05:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:28:15","slug":"was-the-question-understood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/was-the-question-understood\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Question Understood?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most of us have asked someone a question or said something to someone only to have their response to us make it clear that they did not understand what we said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that why your relative gave \u201coff-the-wall\u201d answers to the census taker, records clerk, etc.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A person\u2019s difficulty in understanding the question can be compounded by age, hearing difficulties, cognitive abilities, native language, etc. Do not assume that your relative really understood what they were being asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/more-genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">More Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have asked someone a question or said something to someone only to have their response to us make it clear that they did not understand what we said. Is that why your relative gave \u201coff-the-wall\u201d answers to the census taker, records clerk, etc.? A person\u2019s difficulty in understanding the question can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"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-19983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}