{"id":25704,"date":"2025-05-27T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25704"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:25:37","slug":"its-not-done-and-its-not-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/its-not-done-and-its-not-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not &#8220;Done&#8221; and It&#8217;s Not Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Don\u2019t let the fact that your genealogy isn\u2019t \u201cdone\u201d and isn\u2019t \u201cperfect\u201d prevent you from publishing your compilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cite every source you have used, transcribe the documents accurately, report what they say (not what you wish they\u2019d say), omit conjecture that has no basis, and summarize what you have found. No genealogy will ever be complete and there\u2019s always the chance you miss something. Make certain you have used all sources that are available, not just the ones that are easy to access and not just the ones that are the easiest to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realizing that it won\u2019t be done and that it won\u2019t be perfect doesn\u2019t mean that you skim the surface of what is available and that you do a sloppy job. It\u2019s just that perfection won\u2019t be reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t let the fact that your genealogy isn\u2019t \u201cdone\u201d and isn\u2019t \u201cperfect\u201d prevent you from publishing your compilation. Cite every source you have used, transcribe the documents accurately, report what they say (not what you wish they\u2019d say), omit conjecture that has no basis, and summarize what you have found. No genealogy will ever be [&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-25704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704","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=25704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}