{"id":31826,"date":"2026-01-12T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=31826"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:34:20","slug":"why-we-track-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/why-we-track-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Track Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is important somewhere to keep track of your research logic as you progress. Otherwise you might not remember \u201cwhy\u201d you are researching a certain person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several years ago I focused on a certain Benjamin Butler in an 1850 census enumeration as being \u201cmine.\u201d Using that enumeration as the starting point, I searched other records and made progress. I located a fair amount of information. One problem\u2013I didn\u2019t track WHY I thought this 1850 census entry was for the correct person. What I found later all tied to the 1850 guy, but not to the one who was really \u201cmine.\u201d It took me hours to reconstruct my reason and that was time wasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifteen minutes to write up my reason to begin with would have saved me time later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important somewhere to keep track of your research logic as you progress. Otherwise you might not remember \u201cwhy\u201d you are researching a certain person. Several years ago I focused on a certain Benjamin Butler in an 1850 census enumeration as being \u201cmine.\u201d Using that enumeration as the starting point, I searched other records [&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-31826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31826","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=31826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}