{"id":33923,"date":"2026-05-18T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=33923"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:06:34","slug":"the-most-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/the-most-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Generally speaking, the easiest explanation is usually correct. The more logical hoops one has to jump through, the more times one has to \u201cput away common sense,\u201d and the like, the more likely the explanation isn\u2019t correct. Unusual things do happen, but there is a reason that they are unusual. That \u201coops\u201d baby great-grandma had at the age of 55, twelve years after her last child was born, most likely is a child of one of her daughters in their late teens. The more creative you have to get to explain something, the more likely something simply is not correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now\u2026if you find first hand evidence of those unusual events, that is a different story. Just make certain the informants are reliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sober\u2026it helps if they were sober when they told their story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, the easiest explanation is usually correct. The more logical hoops one has to jump through, the more times one has to \u201cput away common sense,\u201d and the like, the more likely the explanation isn\u2019t correct. Unusual things do happen, but there is a reason that they are unusual. That \u201coops\u201d baby great-grandma had [&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":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33923","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=33923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}