{"id":20393,"date":"2024-07-07T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20393"},"modified":"2024-07-07T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:45:20","slug":"a-few-reminders-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/a-few-reminders-5\/","title":{"rendered":"A few reminders&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Really getting into these things takes some time, but here are some general things to remember when you are \u201cstuck:\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Money and work<\/strong>\u00a0motivate people to move and people are sometimes more mobile than we think-especially if opportunities were limited in the area where the person was living.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a\u00a0<strong>timeline<\/strong>\u00a0of all events in your ancestor\u2019s life.\u00a0<strong>Gaps<\/strong>\u00a0of more than a few years are opportunities for research. Lots of things can happen in two or three years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you<strong>\u00a0really know<\/strong>\u00a0what you think you know? How do you know it? Did you assume when you should not have?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you know\u00a0<strong>where that source<\/strong>\u00a0came from?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Could you be\u00a0<strong>wrong<\/strong>?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are you familiar with\u00a0<strong>all sources<\/strong>\u00a0in the area\u2013civil (all levels of government) and private records?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve posted an update about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/casefile-clues-2\/\">return of\u00a0<em>Casefile Clues\u00a0<\/em>on our website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really getting into these things takes some time, but here are some general things to remember when you are \u201cstuck:\u201d We\u2019ve posted an update about the\u00a0return of\u00a0Casefile Clues\u00a0on our website.<\/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":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393","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=20393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}