{"id":30356,"date":"2025-10-21T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=30356"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:16:15","slug":"quick-and-simple-reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/quick-and-simple-reminders\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick and Simple Reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Really getting into these things takes some time, but here are some general things to remember when you are \u201cstuck:\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Money and work<\/strong>\u00a0motivate people to move and people are sometimes more mobile than we think-especially if opportunities were limited in the area where the person was living.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a\u00a0<strong>timeline<\/strong>\u00a0of all events in your ancestor\u2019s life.\u00a0<strong>Gaps<\/strong>\u00a0of more than a few years are opportunities for research. Lots of things can happen in two or three years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you<strong>\u00a0really know<\/strong>\u00a0what you think you know? How do you know it? Did you assume when you should not have?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you know\u00a0<strong>where that source<\/strong>\u00a0came from?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Could you be\u00a0<strong>wrong<\/strong>?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are you familiar with\u00a0<strong>all sources<\/strong>\u00a0in the area\u2013civil (all levels of government) and private records?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really getting into these things takes some time, but here are some general things to remember when you are \u201cstuck:\u201d<\/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-30356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356","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=30356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}