{"id":23390,"date":"2024-12-24T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=23390"},"modified":"2024-12-24T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:42:23","slug":"23390","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/23390\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Starting Over?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes we may be tempted to \u201cstart over\u201d on a genealogical problem. It\u2019s hard to really start over with a fresh approach. You can\u2019t unlearn what you think you have discovered and you can\u2019t just forget the information that\u2019s confused you\u2013or at least the conclusions you came to from that information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What you can do is go back and double-check each fact or piece of data to see if you made a mistake. You can read documents again, focusing on every term you do not understand and researching every name mentioned in the document. You can determine the source of each piece of data you have involving the difficult problem (creating a citation for each piece of data while you do it). You can reanalyze something to see you made an incorrect conclusion or inference. You can make a list of your assumptions. You can learn more about the time period, location, culture, applicable laws, etc. You can ask someone else unfamiliar with your specific problem to review your information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t stress out about going back to \u201csquare one.\u201d Start using something besides squares and work from where you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we may be tempted to \u201cstart over\u201d on a genealogical problem. It\u2019s hard to really start over with a fresh approach. You can\u2019t unlearn what you think you have discovered and you can\u2019t just forget the information that\u2019s confused you\u2013or at least the conclusions you came to from that information. What you can do [&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-23390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23390","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=23390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}