{"id":24552,"date":"2025-03-10T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24552"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:50:34","slug":"the-easiest-explanation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/the-easiest-explanation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easiest Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is it necessary to research your fifth cousin\u2019s third mother-in-law whose daughter he was only married to for a few weeks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My thought on this is no. There are rabbit holes and then there are genealogy paths that are essentially three thousand light years from your research. But when I mention that not every remotely connected person does not need to be researched, I get people who tell me that they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still say they don\u2019t. Most genealogists have not really thoroughly researched their much closer relatives\u2014like direct ancestors, siblings of ancestors, and first cousins of ancestors. I find that really seeing all I can locate about those people usually keeps me occupied\u2014with the occasional diversion to the second ancestral cousin who has an interesting record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I understand the FAN network. But there\u2019s a limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it necessary to research your fifth cousin\u2019s third mother-in-law whose daughter he was only married to for a few weeks? My thought on this is no. There are rabbit holes and then there are genealogy paths that are essentially three thousand light years from your research. But when I mention that not every remotely [&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-24552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24552","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=24552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}