{"id":30108,"date":"2025-10-07T07:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30108"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:13:39","slug":"more-than-one-way-to-interpret-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/more-than-one-way-to-interpret-that\/","title":{"rendered":"More than One Way to Interpret That?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cI had a large client report.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, or more accurately the client report, was what was large\u2013not the client themselves. In this case, it is probably pretty clear that the word \u201clarge\u201d does not refer to the client themselves. But ask yourself when reading any statement: is there another way to read that? Is there a different interpretation that is reasonable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t get stuck on your first interpretation of a word, phrase, or sentence. Some items genealogists use are poorly edited for clarity, particularly 19th century county histories, \u201cmug books\u201d of biographies submitted by family members, and more newspapers than one may care to admit. If that\u2019s the case, references to certain items may be ambiguous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always ask yourself: Is there another reasonable way to interpret this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI had a large client report.\u201d The report, or more accurately the client report, was what was large\u2013not the client themselves. In this case, it is probably pretty clear that the word \u201clarge\u201d does not refer to the client themselves. But ask yourself when reading any statement: is there another way to read that? Is [&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-30108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108","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=30108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}