{"id":25973,"date":"2025-06-10T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25973"},"modified":"2025-06-10T06:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:46:42","slug":"every-assumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/every-assumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Assumption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ve mentioned this before, but some problems can be worked around or solved by thinking about every assumption we have made about an ancestor and \u201ctheir situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Especially those that are near and dear to our heart. Those are the ones that can create the biggest stumbling blocks. &nbsp;If you don\u2019t have documentation for a \u201cfact\u201d about your ancestor, then that fact could be incorrect. Even if you do have documentation for a fact, that documentation could be incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always consider the possibility that what you think you know could be wrong\u2013and then ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>what would I do differently if this \u201cfact\u201d weren\u2019t true?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And then do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve mentioned this before, but some problems can be worked around or solved by thinking about every assumption we have made about an ancestor and \u201ctheir situation.\u201d Every assumption. Especially those that are near and dear to our heart. Those are the ones that can create the biggest stumbling blocks. &nbsp;If you don\u2019t have documentation [&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-25973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973","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=25973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}