{"id":25194,"date":"2025-04-27T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25194"},"modified":"2025-04-27T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:10:36","slug":"theres-this-one-genealogy-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/theres-this-one-genealogy-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s This One Genealogy Trick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The reality is that there is no trick or instant solution to genealogical research problems. However, generally speaking the following approaches are helpful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>citing your sources;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>learning as much as you can about all the records in the area;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>learning the history of the area;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>having contemporary maps;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>obtaining as many records as possible;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>using compiled sources (published genealogy books, online trees, etc. ) as stepping stones to original records;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>realizing assumptions may not be true;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>continuing to learn about genealogical research in general;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>proofing and double checking your work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Not one trick and not a guarantee, but these general suggestions will go a long way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality is that there is no trick or instant solution to genealogical research problems. However, generally speaking the following approaches are helpful: Not one trick and not a guarantee, but these general suggestions will go a long way.<\/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-25194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194","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=25194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}