{"id":20726,"date":"2024-08-03T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=20726"},"modified":"2024-08-03T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:25:31","slug":"parameters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/parameters\/","title":{"rendered":"Parameters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hasty research increases the chance that incorrect conclusions are made and that we include records for our \u201cperson of interest\u201d who is not really our person of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reduce the chance mistakes are made, take the records that you \u201cknow\u201d are for your person of interest and estimate whichever items you do not have specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a time frame for when they were born<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an approximate location for where they were born<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a time frame for their marriage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an approximate location for their marriage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a time frame for their death<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an approximate location for their death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For all of these approximations, include your reason why you think the time frames and locations are reasonable\u2013you should have at least one source document. These reasons combined with the records are key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then look at the \u201cnew\u201d records you think are for your ancestor. How closely do they match your expectations? Is the difference reasonable? Is it possible your conjectures were wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may also cause you to question whether the records that you were \u201csure\u201d were for your ancestor are really your ancestor at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve simplified the analysis process here\u2013but this general framework, armed with analysis and contemplation, is a good start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day\u00a0<\/a><\/em>book covers our first few years of tips and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/more-genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">More Genealogy Tip of the Day <\/a><\/em>is the final book in the series and it\u2019s not written to help you research your \u201cfamous ancestors.\u201d It\u2019s written to help with all of them.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Learn more about it and get your own copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasty research increases the chance that incorrect conclusions are made and that we include records for our \u201cperson of interest\u201d who is not really our person of interest. To reduce the chance mistakes are made, take the records that you \u201cknow\u201d are for your person of interest and estimate whichever items you do not have [&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":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726","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=20726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}