{"id":26904,"date":"2025-06-17T05:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=26904"},"modified":"2025-06-17T05:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:26:38","slug":"your-own-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/your-own-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Own Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My daughter got me one of those &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4lur2wP\">Tell me Your Story, Grandfather&#8221; type books<\/a> and it got me to thinking. How many genealogists have lamented the fact that a relative did not leave one bit of self-written material about themselves? How many have actually left behind something they wrote about themselves? Now may be the time for you to do that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter got me one of those &#8220;Tell me Your Story, Grandfather&#8221; type books and it got me to thinking. How many genealogists have lamented the fact that a relative did not leave one bit of self-written material about themselves? How many have actually left behind something they wrote about themselves? Now may be the [&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-26904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904","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=26904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}