{"id":28791,"date":"2025-08-24T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=28791"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:38:36","slug":"who-are-you-writing-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/24\/who-are-you-writing-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are You Writing For?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you write a two hundred page book of your life, how many of your descendants\/relatives will read it? How many of them will even be interested enough to pick it up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, if you are dead anyway, do you really care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not even sure I have the answers to these questions\u2026but if you\u2019re doing genealogy research, what sort of genealogy legacy do you want to leave behind? Or do you care what happens to your research after you pass?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you writing the stories in the hopes that just one person will read them? Or are you writing them for yourself because you enjoy it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not certain I have answers this morning, but I do apparently have questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought: If you write a two hundred page book of your life, how many of your descendants\/relatives will read it? How many of them will even be interested enough to pick it up? And, if you are dead anyway, do you really care? I\u2019m not even sure I have the answers to these questions\u2026but [&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-28791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28791","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=28791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}